"The body may be satisfied, even overloaded, but the subtle hunger remains because it can be satisfied only when you become capable of taste. But to taste a thing is to be aware, alert.

"Listen to it – the story is one of the most wonderful I have ever come across. It is a Hasid story. It says….

"There was a very great city. It appeared great to those who lived in it. In fact, it was not bigger than a small saucer. The houses of the city were skyscrapers and the people who were the dwellers, they claimed that their housetops almost touched the sky. But to those who were not deluded, the height of the city looked not more than that of an onion.

"In that city, people of ten cities were assembled – millions of people. But to those who could count, there were only three fools in that city, not a single person more.

"The first fool was a great thinker. He was a great system-maker, a metaphysician – almost an Aristotle. He could talk about anything – you ask and he has ready-made answers. It was spread, the rumor was in the town, that he is the greatest seer. Of course, he was absolutely blind. He could not see the Himalaya just in front of his eyes but he could count the legs of the ants crawling on the moon – and he was absolutely blind. But he was a logic-chopper. He saw things which nobody has ever seen: God, angels, heaven and hell. He was very condemnatory of the mundane world, which can be seen; he was always appreciating the unseen – which he only could see, and nobody else.

"The second man used to hear the music of the spheres. He used to hear the dancing atoms, the harmony of existence – but he was stone-deaf.

"And the third fool, the third man, was absolutely naked. He had nothing. He was the poorest man who has ever existed, except that he had a sword which he always carried, on guard. He was always afraid, he was paranoid – afraid that somebody is going to rob him someday. Of course, he had nothing."