Daily Meditation: Wednesday, August 28, 1996
One of the principal characteristics of human beings is …
One of the principal characteristics of human beings is their curiosity. Human beings want to know everything about life and they encourage each other to carry out the bravest of experiments. They do not ask themselves where these experiments will lead, or what problems and suffering they will encounter, because they embarked on these experiments with neither care nor thought. And then they are caught in a trap, rather like a fly – flies are such curious creatures – who wants to know what that web is over there, so beautifully spun. It does not realize of course that this web is attached to a cunning creature, a spider, who has been watching and waiting for a long time. And as the fly comes to meet with the spider, it perishes. So, instead of going out and smelling, feeling, tasting, listening to and looking at anything under the pretext of knowing everything, in order not to get lost people should begin by identifying the location of all the spiders'webs, all the traps set for them.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
