There is a Danish story about a spider that lived high in the rafter of an old barn. One day, the spider decided to lower himself to a beam where he found the flies more prolific and more easily caught. He therefore decided to live permanently on this lower level.
He spun for himself a comfortable web. One day he noticed the line down which he had come and said to himself that he no longer needed it. So he snapped it and destroyed the support for his whole web.
A tiny thread connects us with the infinite. We have come from God and we are returning Home to Him. Everyone wakes up someday. Everything eventually returns to its source. Coming into the world, we easily become fascinated with the world and we forget about the source. We look at that thread which connects us with the infinite and think. ‘That thing is in the way.’ We snap the line, and we go mad.”
From: “Living a Course in Miracles” by Jon Mundy
David Lee 