Truth Needs a Story
The Master gave his teaching in parables and stories,
which his disciples 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 means of a simple story."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
MORSEL:
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,
at the huge 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