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In La Fontaine's fable, thank you for the reminder

a crow perches in a tree with a piece of cheese in its beak. A fox below wants it, so he doesn't reach or fight, he flatters. He praises the crow's beauty, his feathers, his voice, until the crow, drunk on being seen, opens his beak to sing and drops the cheese straight into the fox's mouth. It's a simple image, but it holds a lifetime of spiritual work inside it. How often do we open ourselves, our boundaries, our worth, our carefully held peace, because someone finally said the words we'd been starving to hear? Flattery works precisely where self-worth is thin. The crow's real failure wasn't vanity, it was that no one inside him had already told him he was worthy, so he had to believe the fox instead. The alchemical work is closing that gap ourselves, learning to sit in our own value so completely that praise becomes a pleasant visitor rather than a key someone else can turn. When you know your own gold, no fox can talk you out of it.

-The Corporate Alchemist

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