From  The Subtleties of the Inimitable
Mulla Nasrudin
by Idries Shah


MYSELF

MYSELF

A monk said to Nasrudin:
'I am so detached that I never think of myself, only of others.'

Nasrudin answered:
'I am so objective that I can look at myself as if I were another person; so I can afford to think of myself.'


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©Octagon Press, 1972 (ISHK Bookservice).

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