In a mother’s womb, there were two unborn babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after birth?”
The other replied:
“Of course. There must be something after birth. Maybe we are here to prepare for what we will become later.”
The first said mockingly:
“Nonsense. There is no life after birth. What kind of life would that be?”
The second answered:
“I don’t know exactly, but there will be more light than we see here. Maybe we will walk on our legs and eat with our mouths. Perhaps we will have other senses that we don’t understand now.”
The first replied:
“This is ridiculous. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths?! Funny! The umbilical cord supplies us with food and everything we need. Besides, the cord is very short, so life after birth is logically impossible.”
The second insisted:
“But I believe there is something else, and it may be different from what we know here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied:
“Pure nonsense. And if there were life, why has no one ever come back from it? Birth is the end of life, and afterward there is nothing but darkness, silence, and oblivion. It takes us into nothingness.”
The second said calmly:
“I don’t know, but I believe we will meet the mother, and she will take care of us.”
The first laughed:
“A mother?! Do you really believe in a mother? That’s laughable. If a mother exists, where is she now?”
The second answered:
“She is all around us… we are surrounded by her… we are from her, and in her we live. Without her, this world would not exist at all.”
The first said:
“I don’t see her, so logically she doesn’t exist.”
The second replied:
“Sometimes, when you are quiet, focused, and listening, you can feel her presence, and you can hear her loving voice calling us from above.”
Perhaps this is one of the deepest symbolic stories explaining the concept of “the universe and God.”
— From the book Your Sacred Self by Dr. Wayne Dyer, adapted by Hossam Badrawi
