Get strong ropes with a capacity to hold tons; tie ten camels to them; then try to get them to carry a stone lying in the midst of the desert, and witness a failure – the stone doesn’t move, not an inch. Ropes and the heavy burden-carrying animals aren’t at fault: they are perfectly anchored and appropriately positioned. It is the stone that refuses to amble along.

The stone, soft and weightless, sticks to its ground and doesn’t even budge. One, two, three (and often occasional) tries by the ropes and camels end in vain. The situation is gloomy, grim, and perplexing. Earthquakes and sandstorms curse their formidable destructive nature, seeing this tiny rock isolated, in peaceful tension, suffering under sloth and sluggishness.

The rock, inanimate though it is, has carried this immobile l

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