A Wise Song-bird reveals three deceptively simple, but important principles that we may already know, but seldom practice! Once upon a time there was a golden songbird that lived in a beautiful garden. It spent all its days singing the loveliest songs to the honor of its creator and maker and the delight of all the people who heard it. But the keeper of the garden, who was a foolish and greedy man, coveted the little songster, and one day he made a cunning net in which he snared it. The little bird begged the man to release him and promised to tell him three great secrets if only he would let him go. Now the gardener really was a very greedy man and rubbing his hands eagerly, he released the bird. Then the songbird told him it's three secrets: "That he should never believe all that he hears; Never regret what he has never lost, And never to throw away that which he has in his keeping." The gardener was furious when he heard this and said...
Life is simple but we insist on complicating it.