Life is full of spider's webs & traps, waiting for the curious & careless who venture off without anyone to guide or instruct them

Curiosity is certainly a very good quality; it is what has brought humanity to its present level of civilization. But it needs some degree of wisdom and direction. For, what do we often find? We see men and women who want to experience everything in life and who encourage one another to have the most daring experiences. They do not ask themselves where it will lead them or what difficulties and suffering they will meet with when they throw themselves into such experiences without caution or reflection. Observe a fly: it too is curious; it wants to know what that beautifully made web is, stretched across in front of it. It doesn’t realize the web is the work of a very crafty being, a spider lurking at the centre, watching and waiting… The fly ventures onto the web, becomes entangled in its threads and is trapped, to the great satisfaction of the spider, whose meal it will be. The same kind of curiosity can often be the downfall of humans. So, instead of throwing themselves into feeling, touching, tasting, watching and listening to anything and everything just because they want to experience it all, if they don’t wish to be devoured they must first identify any spiders’ webs stretched across in front of them.

One of the principal characteristics of human beings is their curiosity. Human beings want to know everything about life and they encourage each other to carry out the bravest of experiments. They do not ask themselves where these experiments will lead, or what problems and suffering they will encounter, because they embarked on these experiments with neither care nor thought. And then they are caught in a trap, rather like a fly – flies are such curious creatures – who wants to know what that web is over there, so beautifully spun. It does not realize of course that this web is attached to a cunning creature, a spider, who has been watching and waiting for a long time. And as the fly comes to meet with the spider, it perishes. So, instead of going out and smelling, feeling, tasting, listening to and looking at anything under the pretext of knowing everything, in order not to get lost people should begin by identifying the location of all the spiders'webs, all the traps set for them.

Our life is a succession of encounters, of contacts with objects, places, situations, human beings and other creatures. Everyone wants to experience and know. Why? Because they think that with this knowledge they will gain something. But be careful, because very often the reverse is true. The fly looks at the spider's web with great curiosity. It wants to know what it is. It has no idea that in this magnificent web of threads lurks the very cunning creature who spun it, and so the fly ventures in and makes the acquaintance of the spider, once and for all we could say. The artist who spun this trap is of course delighted, but for the fly it is the end. Well, life is full of spider's webs and traps like this, waiting for the curious and careless who venture off without anyone to guide or instruct them.

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