An oyster saw a loose pearl that had fallen into the crevice of a rock on the ocean bed. After great efforts she managed to retrieve the pearl and place it just beside her on a leaf.
She knew that humans searched for pearls and thought, “They look for pearls so they will take it and let me be.”
When a pearl diver showed up, however, his eyes were conditioned to look for oysters and not for pearls resting on leaves. So he grabbed the oyster which did not happen to have a pearl and allowed the real pearl to roll back into the crevice in the rock.
We know exactly where to look, and that is the reason why we fail to find God. We are so conditioned to look for the oyster rather than the pearl.
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