Some blind men stumble across an elephant.
Each tries to describe the elephant by touching it.
One feels its trunk and proclaims the elephant to be solid and wide.
Another feels its tail and describes it as thin and spindly.
A third pats its ears and assumes it is flat and floppy.
A fourth touches its side and concludes the elephant to be nondescript and a rough textured being.
On and on it goes.
Each person knows one aspect of the elephant but no one comprehends or understands the whole. So it seems with the various “religions,” each expressing a different experience of God.
Espousing with self-assurance that they know the whole elephant and have the answers. Some are God’s true and chosen. They have found the answers. They know and completely experience the “elephant.” Some offer the “bottle” they sell as full and complete. Does the infinite “elephant” laugh at our foolish simplicity and naivety and ego driven arrogance?
It is only in not knowing that we truly know.
In humility our empty cup is filled.