The poet Awhadi of Kerman was sitting on his porch one night, bent over a vessel. The Sufi Shams-e-Tabrize happened to pass by. "What are you doing?" he asked the poet.
"Contemplating the moon in a bowl of water" was the reply.
"Unless you have broken your neck, why don't you look directly at the moon in the sky?"
Words are inadequate reflections of reality. A man thought he knew what the Taj Mahal was because he was shown a piece of marble and told that the Taj was just a collection of pieces like that. Another one was convinced that, because he had seen Niagara water in a bucket, he knew what the Falls were like.
Anthony de Mello
"Contemplating the moon in a bowl of water" was the reply.
"Unless you have broken your neck, why don't you look directly at the moon in the sky?"
Words are inadequate reflections of reality. A man thought he knew what the Taj Mahal was because he was shown a piece of marble and told that the Taj was just a collection of pieces like that. Another one was convinced that, because he had seen Niagara water in a bucket, he knew what the Falls were like.
Anthony de Mello
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