Creating the "eagle" within ourselves ...

Once long ago an Indian warrior found an eagle's egg on a mountaintop, and he put this eagle's egg next to the eggs that a hen was going to be sitting on.

When the time came, the chicks hatched and so did the little eagle who had been kept warmed in the same brood.

The tiny eagle grew alongside the hatchling's. After some time it learned to cackle like chickens, to scratch the ground, to look for worms and it limited itself to going up to the lower branches of the bushes just like all the other chickens.

And it kept living the idea that it was a chicken.

One day when it was old, the eagle was looking up to the sky and saw something magnificent.

Up there in the bright blue sky, a majestic bird was flying in the open sky, with seeming effortlessness.

The old eagle was awestruck. It turned to the nearest chicken and said "what kind of bird is that?"

The chicken looked up and answered "Oh, that's the Golden Eagle, the Queen of the Skies. But don't pay any attention to it. You and I are here down below."

The eagle never again looked up and it died thinking it was a chicken.

Taking from Walking on Water by Anthony deMello


At some point we all need to search inside and discover who we truly are, so that we are able to spread our wings and fly. -