A Chinese scholar was paradoxically troubled by sorrowful
thoughts during what was ostensibly his happiest hour. He sensed that he had reached the apex of his
career: happiness, wisdom, wealth, personal and public success had all been
granted to him. Now, as he was
celebrating the marriage of his youngest child, he felt that his fortunes could
only begin moving in a downward direction.
The last few years had been distinguished by unfailing accomplishments,
a series of successes that were now crowned with the wedding of his youngest
child. Aware that he could go no higher,
fear and trembling overwhelmed him as he speculated upon the likely collapse of
his good fortunes. “If I could only
improvise a tool with which to fasten the wheel of my life at its present point,
I would be the happiest man on earth,” he thought. - Rabbi Moshe Weiss
What is there. Just this moment.
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