Marble Statue and Sculptor
No Pressure No Diamond Another interesting story from the stable of Gaur Gopal Das: In the middle of a beautiful city there was a Museum. The floor in the Museum was laid with marble tiles. Right in the centre of the foyer was a huge marble statue, as part of the display. Many people from all over the world visited the Museum everyday and admired the beautifully crafted statue. One night, one of the marble tiles on the floor started talking to the marble statue… Hey statue, we are originally from the same mines, transported on the same lorry, brought to the same sculptor, why then do people from across the world come all the way here, step on me, stamp on me, but stand and admire you so much? This is so unfair. The marble statue replied, My dear friend, oh tile, do you remember how both of us sat there side by side in the sculptors workshop in our original forms as marble blocks? And do you recollect how the sculptor chose to work on you first? When he started using the t...