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not according to the average; otherwise everybody would be miserable! Just a simple thing and the whole world could be made miserable. Give all of them average size shoes: somebody will have such big shoes that he is carrying them, cannot even walk, and somebody will have such small shoes that he is dying... how to reach home?
I have heard about a philosopher: he always purchased shoes which were one size smaller than he needed. Every shopkeeper was puzzled, "What is the matter with you? You are a well-known person, you are not an idiot. This shoe is too small for you."
And he used to say, "You don't understand, this shoe is such a great help to me. When I wear this shoe I forget all the miseries of life -- all problems, all anxieties disappear -- this shoe is too much! And when I reach home at night and take off the shoes, I say, `My God! What a day, and what a relief,' and I sleep so soundly. This is one of my discoveries," he used to say, "otherwise life is unbearable."
It always happens: if you are miserable, create some bigger misery and the smaller will disappear.
But remember, anybody who takes the responsibility of commanding people is being very inhuman. He is degrading people -- their uniqueness, their differences -- and he is putting the same size shoes on everyone. Nobody fits. Everybody suffers. All your principles are of the same kind.
In Greek mythology there is a story of a king who was a little crazy. He had a very beautiful guest house, and the bed was made of pure gold. In the beginning, a few guests stayed there, but then nobody was coming out that way, from his capital, because it became known to everybody that the man is very dangerous.
He had made such a beautiful guest house, but he had his principles -- the guest has to fit with the length of the bed. He is so crazy, and you are so alone. And he keeps four wrestlers ready. If you are a little too long, they will make you a little shorter -- from both sides, they start boxing you until you are of the same size as the bed. If you are a little too long, he will simply order, "Cut his feet off!" And whatever you say to him, he says, "I have made the
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