In a mother’s womb were two
babies.One asked the other: “Do you believe in
life after delivery?”The other replied, “Why, of course. There
has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare
ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery.
What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light
than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our
mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand
now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And
eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies
nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so
short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe
it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this
physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life,
then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is
the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but
darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will
meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother?
That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by
her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this
world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical
that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence
and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her
presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from
above.”
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