The Frog in the Well

 The Frog in the Well

     From the Japanese, “Ido no naka no awazu taikai o shirazu.”

     The frog in the well does not know the ocean.

The frog in the well does not know the ocean.

The frog cannot see the ocean, and, if he glimpses it, quickly retreats into his walled  world, because the reality of the ocean instills fear.

Like the frog, a man who lives in a small world, governed by fear, excludes the ocean of others.

One governed by fear will be incapable of loving fully.

The smaller one’s world, the more limited one’s understanding and compassion.

The extreme one, the narcissist, sadly has evolved no higher than a frog in a well.

We all have a bit of the frog in us. 

Ready, on three, let’s all hop out together. 

One, two, three…

The ocean!!!