5 Qualities of a Pencil We can Relate to

"We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with perpetual mental crouch." - Robert Anton Wilson

The following is an excerpt from Paulo Coelho’s book, Like the Flowing River. I believe there will be many more paragraphs, poems, sentences from this book , just like his other books, that will inspire me, and thus be placed here in my blog as a reminder for myself.
1) We are capable of great things, buy we must never forget that there is a hand guiding our steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.
2) Now and then, a pencil will have to stop writing and sharpened. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, it’s much sharper. So we, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make us a better person.
3) The pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.
4) What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside us.
5) The pencil always leaves a mark. In just the same way, we should know that everything we do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in our every action.