MYTHS

The master gave his teachings in parables and stories, which his deciples listened to with pleasure--and occasional frustration, for they longed for something deeper. The master was unmoved. To all their objections he would say, "You have yet to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story."

Another time he said, "Do not despise the story. A lost gold coin is found by means of a penny candle; the deepest truth is found by a simple story."
Anthony deMello,SJ

MORSEL: People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the hugh waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.-- St. Augustine of Hippo