If every time we look at the world there is a possibility for a new beginning, then we are creative at a very fundamental level. It also means that nothing is necessarily determined by its initial conditions – any interruption offers new possibilities and new beginnings.
I’d like to share the following story I heard a while ago:
There was once a Cossack who saw a rabbi walking through the town square nearly every day at about the same time. One day the Cossack got very curious and asked the rabbi: ‘where are you going?’
‘I am not sure’ replied the rabbi
‘You pass this way nearly every day at the same time, surely you know where you are going.’ When the rabbi insisted that he didn’t know, the Cossack became irritated and suspicious and took the rabbi to jail. As he was locking the cell, the rabbi faced him and said: ‘you see, I told you I didn’t know.’
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