The Amulet of the Sage
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The Amulet of the Sage
A farmer asked a wise man to help him improve his farm, which had a low income. The sage wrote something on a piece of paper and put it in a box. He closed it and handed it to the farmer, saying:
-Take this box around your farm three times a day for a year.
So did the farmer. In the morning when going to the field holding the box, he found an employee sleeping, when he should have been working. He woke him up and got his attention. At noon, when he went to the stable, he found the cattle dirty and the horses without food.
At night, going to the kitchen with the box, he realized that the cook was wasting the supplies. From then on, every day, as he walked around his farm with his amulet, he found things that needed to be corrected. At the end of the year, he met the sage again and said:
-Leave this box with me for another year, my farm has improved since I have the amulet.
The sage smiled and, opening the box, he said to him:
-You can have this amulet for the rest of your life.
On the paper was written the following sentence: “If you want things to get better, you must follow them constantly.”