Gandhi, like Mother Theresa
and Nelson Mandela, is regarded world-wide as a person who walked with great
humility and wisdom.
The story is told of the
time Gandhi stepped aboard a train and, as he walked up the boarding stairs, one
of his shoes slipped off. Unfortunately, at that exact
moment, the train began to
move and there was no way that he could recover the fallen shoe. To the
amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off
his other shoe and threw it
back down the railway track where it landed close to the one he had lost.
When asked by a fellow
passenger why he had done this, he replied: “The poor man who finds the shoe
lying next to the tracks, will now have a pair that he can use.”
Remember:
There are always people who
are less fortunate than ourselves. Compassion as a value, means being aware
of when people are suffering, and wanting to do
something about it. Even if
we haven’t got material things to offer another person, we can always offer words of kindness and support.
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