Chapter 14 on the beach

One man said to another: "Long ago, at high tide, I wrote a line in the sand with the tip of my stick, and people still stop to read it, and they don't pay attention." Let it be wiped away." Another person said: "I also wrote a line on the beach, but it was washed away by the waves of the vast sea at low tide. But please tell me, what did you write?" One replied: "I wrote: I am what he is. But what did you write?" The second said: "I wrote: I am but a drop in this great ocean" Upon The Sand Said one man to another, "At the high tide of the sea, long ago, with the point of my staff I wrote a line upon the sand; and the people still pause to read it, and they are careful that naught shall erase it "

And the other man said, "And I to write a line upon the sand, but it was at low tide, and the waves of the vast sea washed it away. But tell me, what did you write?" And the first man answered and said, "I wrote this: I am he who is. But what did you write?" And the other man said, "This I wrote: I am but a drop of this great ocean."