It's all an Illusion

Once there lived a village of creatures that lived along the bottom of a great crystal river.

The current of the river swept silently over them all. Young, old, rich and poor.  Good and evil.  The current flowed it's own way knowing only itself.

Each creature in it's own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current was what each creature had learnt from birth.

But one spoke up at last, 'I am tired of clinging to the bottom.  Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going.  I shall let go, and let it take me where it will.  Clinging here, I shall die of boredom or worse.

The other creatures laughed and said 'Fool!  Let go and that current you value so much will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks.  You will die a quicker and more painful death than staying on the bottom.'

But this creature did not listen to the others, and taking a breath, let go.  And was at once tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.

Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom and he was bruised and hurt no more.

And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger cried 'See, a miracle!  A creature like ourselves and yet he soars above in the crystal current!  He is truly an amazing creature!'

And the one carried in the current said, 'I am no more amazing than you.  The crystal river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go.'