Once, when I was driving on a curving road, a car going in the opposite direction passed me, and the driver yelled out her window at me, "Pig!" I felt very upset at being called a pig by a complete stranger. "She probably has a problem with men," I thought, as I rounded the curve - and nearly ran over a pig in the middle of the road. 

Dan Millman 'No Ordinary Moments'

A rich man, fond of felines, asked a famous Zen ink painter to draw him a cat. The master agreed and asked the man to come back in three months. When the man returned. he was put off, again and again, until a year had passed. Finally, at the man's request, the master drew out a brush, and, with grace and ease, in a single fluid motion, drew a picture of a cat - the most marvelous image the man had ever seen. He was astonished; then he grew angry. "That drawing took you only thirty seconds! Why did you make me wait a year?" he demanded. Without a word, the master opened up a cabinet, and out fell thousands of drawings - of cats.

Zen story related in Dan Millman's 'No Ordinary Moments'