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"The Empty Cup" Long ago, a traveler climbed the highest mountain, hoping to find the wisest master. When he arrived, he expected a king... Instead, he found an old man watering flowers. "Teach me everything," the traveler said. The old man smiled. "I cannot." The traveler frowned. "You are called the wisest man alive." The master nodded. "And that is exactly why I still ask the flowers how they bloom." The traveler laughed. "They cannot answer." The old man looked at the sky. "No... but they remind me that growing is quieter than knowing." He picked up an empty cup. "This cup can always receive more rain. The full one rejects every drop." Then he whispered... "The proud collect answers. The humble collect wisdom." For knowledge is not earned by pretending to know. It belongs to those who still dare to ask. Because the river never reaches the ocean by believing it already arrived. It keeps flowing. Always. So... stay curious. Stay humble. Stay empty enough... to be filled again. 🖤

— Winston Churchill

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

- John C. Maxwell

— Unknown