caravanserai

Once it was asked of a great American actor — somebody interviewed him and asked him, ”Can you say what has been the greatest disappointment in your life?” The interviewer must have been thinking that in the life of an actor there are many failures: when people don’t respond, don’t clap, then whatsoever the actor is doing goes flat.
The actor said, ”The greatest disappointment in my life, you ask? Yes, it happened…. I was a child, a small kid, and I was passing down a road, and near the road I saw a big tent. I thought there must be a circus going on, but I had no money, so I tried to enter the tent from somewhere other than the main entrance, and somehow I sneaked in. And when I entered, it was not a circus but a priest was giving a sermon — and that was the greatest disappointment in my life.”

Osho.

Just Like That
Chapter #9
Chapter title: When Shibli is absent