For the sake of a little pleasure ! by James B Beard, author
For the sake of a little pleasure ! AN OLD TEACHING Do not be distracted because of little pleasures. A number of flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing their feet on it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, “O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.” Pleasure brought with pains, hurts. Aesop’s Fables written in B.C. Looking around, I think! ~ Is this what we have all done? Noodin James Beard aka Noodin Cultural Storyteller, Educator, Speaker, Author ...