becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.”
The old man leafed through the book, and fell to reading a page he came to.
The boy waited, and then interrupted the old man just as he himself had been interrupted.
“Why are you telling me all this?” “Because you are trying to realize your Personal Legend.
And you are at the point where you’re about to give it all up.”
“And that’s when you always appear on the scene?” “Not always in this way, but I always appear in one form or another.
Sometimes I appear in the form of a solution, or a good idea. At other times, at a crucial moment, I make it easier for things to happen.
There are other things I do, too, but most of the time people don’t realize I’ve done them.”
The old man related that, the week before, he had been forced to appear before a miner, and had taken the form of a stone.
The miner had abandoned everything to go mining for emeralds.
For five years he had been working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands of stones looking for an emerald.
The miner was about to give it all up, right at the point when, if he were to examine just one more stone—just one more—he would find his emerald.
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