Gandhi’s Shoes
INSPIRATIONAL, 4 Jul 2022
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
As Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was boarding a train, he lost a shoe. The train was already moving, and he could not go back to pick it up. He quickly took off his other shoe and threw it back near where he had lost the first one. A passenger asked,
“Why did you do that?”
Gandhi said,
“So that the poor man who finds my shoe will have a pair.”
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Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from Münsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. Fischer was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University 1986-88, has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities, and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment in 1993.
Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer’s Stories to Inspire You – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
Tags: Gandhi, Inspirational
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