The desire must be strong

A teacher took his disciple to a lake.

‘Today, I’m going to show you what true devotion means,’ he said.

He asked his disciple to wade with him into the lake, then he grasped the boy’s head and held it under the water.

The first minute passed.

In the middle of the second minute, the boy was struggling as hard as he could to free himself from his teacher’s hands and return to the surface.

At the end of the second minute, the teacher released him.

The boy stood up, heart pounding, gasping for breath. ‘You tried to kill me!’ he screamed.

The teacher waited for him to calm down and said: ‘I wasn’t trying to kill you; if I had been, you wouldn’t be here now.

I just wanted to find out what you felt when you were under the water.’ ‘I felt as if I was dying! All I wanted was to be able to breathe a little air.’ ‘Exactly. True devotion only appears when we have only one desire and we will die if we cannot achieve it.’

By Paulo Coelho

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