February 2012
3 posts
Adults think that what infants do in their pants is a mess. But insightful children quickly realize that most of the adults just keep doing the same thing… in their minds.
When, after great good fortune or long travail, you discover the likeness of your actual identity (‘what’ it is that you are)… you will be obliterated by wonder. You will see that you mistook, by analogy, the nail of your little toe… for your entire self. What we actually are would scare any monster into desperate retreat, and reduce any sage to tears of astonishment.
A man came to me saying he had heard that I possessed divine powers. I asked what such powers might be comprised of. He said: to raise the dead, to fly through the air without wings, to predict the future.
I simply smiled at him.
Alas, he did not realize: my smile raised his dead soul from its confusions, it flew through the air without wings, and it predicted the future — for he, too, would...