One ancient text tells the story of a crow who was flying with a piece of meat in its beak. Twenty crows were pursuing it trying to grab the meat. Flying high to escape them, it became tired. Suddenly, it dropped the meat, and the twenty crows flew down shrieking, fighting for it. Then the crow, flying high, thought, “How good it is to carry nothing — the whole sky belongs to me!”

“A Conscious Struggle Toward Reality,” by Lizelle Reymond, published in Sacred Tradition And Present Need, an East/West Publication