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Wisdom Story 27

by Paul Brian Campbell, SJ   

The Master seemed quite impervious to what people thought of him. When the disciples asked how he had attained this stage of inner freedom, he laughed aloud and said:

 

“Till I was twenty I did not care what people thought of me.

After twenty I worried endlessly about what my neighbors thought.

Then one day after fifty I suddenly saw that they hardly ever thought of me at all.”