A sage transformed a mouse into successively more powerful creatures — a cat, a dog, a tiger — to protect it from each new predator. The tiger grew arrogant and threatened the sage himself. The sage immediately restored it to a mouse.
A sage transformed a mouse into successively more powerful creatures — a cat, a dog, a tiger — to protect it from each new predator. The tiger grew arrogant and threatened the sage himself. The sage immediately restored it to a mouse.
Transformation that forgets its origin is dangerous. The mouse had been given power it had not grown into — and power without commensurate character turns against the hand that gave it. Origin is not shame; it is the root of integrity.
Where have you been given authority, resources, or status faster than your character could absorb it? What has the gap between power and wisdom cost you?
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