“"Nasrudin, your donkey has been lost."
"Thank goodness I was not on the donkey at the time, or I would be lost too."”

—  Nasreddin

Paul Blenkiron, Stories and Analogies in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (2010), , p. 43

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