Meeting between Ahab (a powerful criminal) and St. Savin (a priest) written by Paulo Coelho
One night, St. Savin came to Ahab’s house and said he wanted to spend a night there. Ahab decided that he would kill the saint that night.
Even though Ahab had begun to sharpen his knife the moment the saint set foot in his house, safe in the knowledge that the world was a reflection of himself, he was determined to challenge the saint and so he asked him:
“If, tonight, the most beautiful prostitute in the village came in here, would you be able to see her as neither beautiful not seductive?”
“No, but I would be able to control myself”, the saint replied.
“And if I offered you a pile of gold coins to leave your cave in the mountain and come in and join us, would you be able to look on that gold and see only pebbles?”
“No, but I would be able to control myself.”
“And if you were sought by two brothers, one of whom hated you, and the other who saw you as a saint, would you be able to feel the same towards them both?”
“It would be very hard, but I would be able to control myself sufficiently to treat both the same.”
Savin and Ahab had the same instincts – Good and Evil struggled in both of them, just as it did in every soul on the face of the earth. When Ahab realised that Savin was the same as him, he realised too that he was the same as Savin.
It was all a matter of control. And choice.
Nothing more and nothing less.
What a message! Wow.
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