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..and not respond to what we assume the other said...
The village drunkard staggered up Io the parish priest, newspaper in hand, and
greeted him politely. The priest, annoyed, ignored the greeting because the man
was slightly inebriated.
He had come with a purpose, however, “Excuse me, Father,” he said, “Could you tell
me what causes arthritis?” The priest ignored that too.
But when the man repeated the question the priest turned on him impatiently and
cried, “Drinking causes arthritis, that’s
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When Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States, he saw dozens of people
each day. Most had complaints of one kind or another.
One day a visiting Governor told the President that he did not understand how he
was able to meet so many people in the space of a few hours.
“Why, you are finished with all your visitors by dinner time,” said the Governor,
“while I am often in my office till midnight.”
“Yes,” said Coolidge. “That’s because you talk.”
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It is just as astonishing to see the use they make of their imagination..,..
“If you ever marry or take a mistress after I am gone I shall return to haunt
you,” said a dying woman to her husband.
So when he fell in love again some months after his wife’s death he was horrified,
but not surprised, to see her ghost walk into the house that night and accuse him
bitterly of infidelity.
This went on night after night till he could take it no more and went to consult a
Zen Master who said, “What make
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