The Thief: Discovering the Art of Soulful Living

There was once a conniving S.O.B. who would steal the shirt off of his best friend's back. So when the opportunity arose to swindle a rich widow, he, like a spider spinning its web, spun a whopper of a lie around the widow. So tight was the web of lies she couldn't begin to unscramble the webbed maze. With the lies set in stone, the conniver makes off with her fortune of jewels, merely to find them taken from him.

Ready for battle the S.O.B. declares, "I'll capture those jewel snipers and when I do I will get what rightfully belongs to me!"

Confronting those who had taken the jewels the conniver learns they are not snipers but innocent people, who trust the jewels are gifts given to them from the Gods.

The elder reproaches the conniver, saying squarely, "You may not take that which is not yours to rightfully take!"

"What would you do if you were the thief and found out that you may not take that which is not yours to rightfully take,
without having to right your wrong?"