Absalom Underwater. Some thoughts (№ 224525)

Nasreddin Hodja came to the young mystic and said,
- Favorite teacher! Help me as the deepest doubts are tearing me apart. Sometimes I love you so much, that love overflows and overwhelms me - but then I do not feel respect for you and you are unable to learn; and sometimes you for me the highest authority, and I really student attention, but do not feel to you any love. How can I be?
- Who forbid a child to ride on one leg if he likes? - answered Nasreddin. - But I think if it is after a long absence to see his mother, rushed towards her with all speed.