The Story Of The Marble Statue And The Marble Tiles

Learn to highlight your qualities, without devaluing those of others.

In the middle of a beautiful city, there was a museum laid with beautiful marble tiles and with a huge marble statue as a part of the display. Many people from all over the world visited the museum every day and admired the beautifully crafted statue. One night, the marble tiles started talking to the marble statue.

Marble Tiles: Hey statue, Don’t you think that it is just not fair that everybody from all over the world come all the way here to admire you while ignoring and stepping on me.

Marble Statue: My dear brother, marble tile, Don’t you remember we are actually from the same cave.

Marble Tile: Yes! I do, that is why i feel it is even more unfair. Both of us were born from the same cave and yet the world treats us so differently now. This is so unfair !

Can you live with the consequence of engaging in a form of liability that does not involve coercive force in the event of opposition to a “modeling” necessary for good quality work?

Marble Statue: Yes, you are right my brother. But, do you still remember the day when the sculptor tried to work on you but you resisted his tools.

Marble Tiles: Yes, I despise that guy. How could he use those nasty tools on me.

Marble Statue: Well, Since you resisted his tools he couldn’t work on you. When he decided to give up on you, he started working on me instead. I knew at once that i would be something different and unique after his efforts. I bore all the painful tools he used on me and allowed him craft me as he wanted!

Marble Tiles: But those tools were so painful.

Marble Statue: My brother, there is a price for everything in life. Since, you decided to resist and gave up half way, you can’t blame anybody who steps on you now.!

The marble tiles silently listened to his brothers words. and started to reflect on it.

The moral is as follows: The harder the knocks you go through in life, the more you learn and put them to use in the future! Do not be discouraged by setbacks and failures! Keep trying to be better.

Leadership is the pursuit of the certainty that all your hard work has paid off. It represents the voluntary straining of the body’s physical or mental powers in order to achieve a higher than usual yield, in the sphere of a major interest: that of building a masterpiece, rising to the heights of perfection.

The Story Of The Marble Statue And The Marble Slab highlights that part of spirituality that deals with the rules and efforts that lead man from the first step of the climb to perfection, to union with God. At the same time, the story indicates the active part of spiritual life, the part of cooperation that God asks of you, the efforts and sacrifices that are required of you to reach the greatness of the work that God wants to accomplish.

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