Jerome a Paris:
if the spiritual thing exists only in your head then you'll have spent your all life (and wasted everything you have) in the pursuit of something that does not exist.
That reminds me of another Yiddish story, but its real long. The penultimate punch line is "Life is a fountain." If nobody here knows it, and I get some requests, maybe I'll write it up later. Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
Now I read this tale and it tells me a different thing that the one you explained in the previous comments.. but the first time I listened to it ten years ago, this is more or less the notion I got it.
Actually you said better than what I actually could have said.
Of course, people change, see different things, and life cahnges...but funny I traveled ten years in a comment.
thanks
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
