Sacred Stories
She had been practicing meditation for many years. She understood that there was something that she needed to understand—where to go, what to do.
She walked into a bookstore that had a large area of spiritual books and was just standing and looking. Just at ease, standing and looking. Not even taking books off the shelf; looking at the titles.
A man walked up to her, pulled two books off the shelf, handed them to her, and said, “This is what you need.”
She was startled. She looked. The first book was Be Here Now by Ram Dass.
The second was a book of instruction on Insight Meditation. Not on Buddhism, but on Insight Meditation.
She was startled. She looked around a minute later for the man. He was gone. She went to the counter and said, “Where did the man go that was just standing here?”
“There was nobody else here. Only you were in the bookstore.”
Well, of course she bought the two books! She took them home. She read them.
What you need will come to you, sometimes in what seems to be mysterious, but always loving ways.