One Always Treads With A Joyful Step

A Prisoner Lived In Solitary Confinement For Years. He Saw And Spoke To No One And His Meals Were Served Through An Opening In The Wall. One Day An Ant Came Into His Cell. The Man Contemplated It In Fascination As It Crawled Around The Room. He Held It In The Palm Of His Hand The Better To Observe It, Gave It A Grain Or Two, And Kept It Under His Tin Cup At Night. One Day It Suddenly Struck Him That It Had Taken Him Ten Long Years Of Solitary Confinement To Open His Eyes To The Loveliness Of An Ant.

Do You Want A Sign That You're Asleep? Here It Is: You're Suffering. Suffering Is A Sign That You're Out Of Touch With The Truth. Suffering Is Given To You That You Might Open Your Eyes To The Truth, That You Might Understand That There's Falsehood Somewhere, Just As Physical Pain Is Given To You So You Will Understand That There Is Disease Or Illness Somewhere. Suffering Occurs When You Clash With Reality. When Your Illusions Clash With Reality, When Your Falsehoods Clash With Truth, Then You Have Suffering. Otherwise There Is No Suffering.

Suffering Is Given To You That You Might Open Your Eyes To The Truth.

"my Former Master Taught Me To Accept Birth And Death." "then What Have You Come To Me For?" Asked The Master. "to Learn To Accept What Lies In Between."

Wouldn't It Be Wonderful If We Had A World Where Everybody Said, 'we Don't Know?' The Fact Is That You're Surrounded -god And You Don't See God, Because You Know About God. The Final Barrier To The Vision Of God Is Your God Concept. You Miss God Because You Think You Know. The Highest Knowledge Of God Is To Know God As Unknowable. All Revelations, However Divine, Are Never Any More Than A Finger Pointing At The Moon. As We Say In The East, 'when The Sage Points To The Moon, All The Idiot Sees Is The Finger'.