On the way

Posted in Quotes by 10k films on April 17th, 2010

‘There’s a story I read somewhere, years ago, which illustrates the urgency of ‘ardent longing’: It is said that a certain Sheikh (Spiritual master) was walking by a canal with a young disciple who kept pestering him to be told when he could expect to “find God”. “What must I do Master?’ Tell me at once!” In his eagerness, he grew careless, stumbled and fell into the water. The Sheikh knelt down and held the youth’s head under water until he was more than half drowned, then dragged him out and said: “When your need to find God is as powerful as your need just now for a breath of air, then you will be on the way to what you seek.” - Charles Hassan le Gai Eaton