A short story of Ram Dass…There are two waves drifting along
in the ocean, one a bit bigger than the other. The bigger wave
suddenly becomes very sad and upset. The smaller wave asks
what's wrong. "You don't want to know," the bigger wave says.
"What is it?" the small wave asks. "No - really - it's too terrible.
If you knew what I knew, you'd never be happy." The small
wave persists. Finally the big wave explains: "You can't see it,
but I can see that, not too far from here, all of the waves are
crashing on the shore. We are going to disappear." The small
wave says," I can make you happy with just six words, but you
have to listen very carefully to them." The big wave doesn't
believe it -- what does the small wave know that he doesn't –
but he's desperate. After a while of doubting and mocking the
small wave, the big wave finally gives in, and asks the small wave
to tell him. And so the small wave says:
"You're not a wave, you're water."
