The three stone cutters
There was a man who was fond of reading the philosophy of life. He was curious about knowing the perspective of others’ life. Once he came across three stone cutters. By the sense of inquiry, he asked them what they were doing. The first replied, “I am making a living.” The second kept hammering while he said, “I am doing the best job of stonecutting in the entire county.” The third looked up with a visionary gleam in his eye and said, “I am building a cathedral.” The man was very amazed to know the answers. All three were doing the same work but the attitudes were different. The first one was just making his livelihood, nothing else. It’s barely impossible to come up with such a perspective. The second one was higher than the first one. He was making the best possible. Such an outlook guides us ahead in life. It leads us to perfection. And when we do any work with perfection it is noticed and appreciated by all. While the third one had the spiritual viewpoint. Though the work was