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Watch Out for Celebrities Like Anthony Hopkins: They Are Wiser Than You Think

“We must dig ditches.”

Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀
The Philosophical Inn
3 min readJan 17, 2025

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Sometimes, life turns into a Horror show with a capital H.

And although, as Charles Bukowski used to say, “I’m closer to washing dishes than I am to teaching college classes,” I’d like to give you a little advice to make your life a little less scary.

Something I learned from a tale by the legendary actor of The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins (87 years old).

Note: I have allowed myself to version the story to give it more fun :-)

The Shaman and the rain

Once upon a time, a great drought turned the home of a small tribe into a desert.

What was once an Amazonian orchard became Egypt.

The cattle died. The children were dying of dehydration, and their parents were considering eating their in-laws. — But that only partially solved the problem, the famine, not the thirst.

Desperate, the tribe members — normally peaceful and docile people — turned into an angry and potentially violent mob and went to the tribe’s shamans with fire in their eyes (and in their torches) to demand help.

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Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀
Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀

Written by Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀

Author. I write about spirituality, philosophy, and self-improvement. Learn how to use spiritual-help as a skill that generates wealth and happiness.

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