09/03/2015
"Do not extend your labour beyond what you have the strength for, otherwise you may be obliged to depart from your place and you will be like the man who gave up carrying cockerell's wings, which was within the bounds of his strength, and was seen carrying a plank, whereupon he fell and was laughed at. Do not abandon the small advantage that is close at hand in the hope of a greater one further off; otherwise when you let go of the small one close at hand, you will fail to catch the greater one, and you will lose both. You will be like the stupid man who, while he was carrying his son across a river on his shoulders, saw a fish swimming in the water: he let go the child in order to catch the fish and as a result he lost his child in the river and he failed to catch the fish."
Letter of Mor Babai the Catholicos, 36 37
