I am minded to relate a Shaykh Nasruddin story.
Shaykh Nasruddin is a mythic figure in Sufi parables. AFAIK, he never actually lived --but he is very alive, because stories about him relate to the basic trials of human nature.
A beggar had a rough day. But before the sun went down had managed to get JUST enough copper coin to buy a small flat loaf of bread (think "pita" or something like it.)
He bought his bread, looking longingly over at the stall where a fat fellow was selling bowls of thick meat stew. "Hmmm- UMM!" The beggar wished that he could get some, but he only had bread.
But my bread would be MUCH more satisfying if it at least smelled, maybe tasted like that stew, he thought. So while the fat merchant was talking to his customers, the beggar held his little loaf over top of the stewpot where it could absorb the steam.
Sudden the merchant whirled around and grabbed the beggar by the wrist.
"Thief!" And he continued to accost the beggar. The two disputing parties went before Shaykh Naasruddin, who was reclining against the wall with a circle of his students.
Both men related their sides of the dispute. The merchant insisted that the beggar had taken the rich odours of his stew without paying for them.
Nasruddin was quiet a moment and said,
"Allright, brother. It is true this brother took something without paying. And I am a charitable Muslim. Though a poor man myself, I will pay you what this beggar owes you. What is the price?"
The merchant promptly quoted the price of a full bowl of stew.
Shaykh Nasruddin opened his purse, took out the correct number of coins, and dropped them in front of the merchant. But before the merchant could take them, Nasruddin snatched them up as they bounced, and returned them to his purse.
"What!!!? You would cheat me, Shaykh?"
"I give you your just price," replied Nasruddin. "This man took from you the smell of your stew without depleting your pot. I paid you with the sound of my coins without depleting my purse."
