From a book of parables:
“They poured balls into a box—wooden and copper—of the same size. They closed the lid, waited, opened it. Just as they had lain before, so they remained. They closed it again and shook the box well. They opened it and looked. The wooden balls were on top; the copper ones at the bottom. The balls know their path. Each one of them. Are we any more foolish?
An old man was traveling in a crowded bus. People were pressing him from all sides, and it was time for him to get off. He could not reach the exit at all. Fortunately, the bus was shaken by the bad road, and the man was able to move toward the exit. If life shakes us, we can move within it—if we know where the exit is.
One who has a great goal will not be hindered by life’s hardships, and successes and failures alike move him forward.
What difference does it make how exactly the box is shaken? What difference does it make how exactly the bus is shaken?”*
Note: The quoted passages are translated from Bulgarian.
