Suspend Your Judgment

The horse was gone.

Standing in his empty stable, the old Chinese farmer stared at the broken gate swinging in the wind. His neighbors would arrive soon with their sympathies and their certainties. But he already knew what he would tell them.

"What terrible luck!" they cry. The farmer shrugs. "Maybe yes, maybe no."

The horse returns. The neighbors say, “What a blessing!” And the farmer replies, “Maybe yes, maybe no.”