' Getting up, early '...

"Nasrudin, my son, get up early in the mornings."

"Why, father?"

"It is a good habit.

Why, once I rose at dawn and went for a
walk.

I found on the road a sack of gold."

"How did you know it was not lost the previous night?"

"That is not the point.

In any case, it had not been there the
night before.

I noticed that."

"Then it isn't lucky for everyone to get up early.

The man who
lost the gold must have been up earlier than you."



-as collected by Idries Shah