seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead wheretruth is here
‘Seeker of Truth’; e.e. cummings
Paths are created by others to lead you where they want you to go. On the other hand, in the land of the crows there is no path.
Squawking of baby crows
Screaming caw, caw, caw
Feed me, feed me, feed
Non-stop all day.
Q: What do crows drink to stay awake?
A: CAWfee.
The Master set out on a journey with one of his disciples. At the outskirts of the village they ran into the governor, who, mistakenly thinking they had come to welcome him to the village, said, “You really didn’t have to go to all this trouble to welcome me.”
“You are mistaken, your highness,” said the disciple. “We’re on a journey, but had we known you were coming we would have gone to even greater pains to welcome you.”
The Master did not say a word. Toward evening he said, “Did you have to tell him that we had not come to welcome him? Did you see how foolish he felt?”
“But had we not told him the truth, would we not have been guilty of deceiving him?”
“We would not have deceived him at all,” said the Master. “He would have deceived himself.”
Anthony de Mello, SJ
MORSEL: Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them. ~~Thomas Merton
