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SPONTANEOUS SUCCESS
Chapter 33
Altruism
"It was there, in that rat infested hole, that I met a
holy man. Raghu. Clad in a long brown woolen cloak
with a hood. The cell was dingy and grim, but despite
the bleak surroundings, there was something 'delightful'
about him. I'm usually never at a loss for words, but this
man left me speechless.”
"A holy man in the City of Darkness?” Casilda said.
“He’d scratched five simple words in English on the
cell wall: 'Stop looking and start seeing.’
“He found it perfectly normal to be there. He said
life's not about finding your future; it's about your future
finding you. It's like, instead of always chasing after what
we think we want, we need to stop and pay attention to
what's trying to find us.
Paul couldn't contain himself. "How, Grandpa?”
"On the third day, he was just sitting there when
something bizarre happened—a new guard, someone
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