The Seeker approached the Disciple respectfully and asked: “What is the meaning of human life?“

The Disciple consulted the Written Works of His Master and confidently replied with the words of the Master himself: “Human life is nothing but the expression of God’s exuberance.”

When the Seeker met the Master himself and asked him the same question, the Master said: “I do not know.“

The Seeker says: “I do not know.” That takes honesty.
The Master says: “I do not know.” That takes a mystical mind that knows all things through non-knowing.
The Disciple says: “I know.” That takes ignorance. In the form of borrowed knowledge.

With love,

Little-pencil collected from “The Song of the bird” by Anthony de Mello, SJ.

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