There once was a man who took his new hunting dog to try her out for the first time. He happened to shoot a duck, and the duck fell into the water of a lake. The man couldn’t swim, but the dog was watching, and she understood. So she just walked on the water, dragged the duck back and gave it to the owner.

The hunter couldn’t believe his eyes and said, “The dog, walking on water!” He kept rubbing his eyes and looking. “Was that the dog walking on water?” he kept murmuring to himself, and then asked his neighbor, “Did you see something strange about that dog? Did you see it too, or is it just me?” The neighbor had been looking at the dog as it walked on top of the water, and he said, “Yes, now I know: That dog can’t swim!” He just thought the dog couldn’t swim. He didn’t notice anything else.

This is similar to us because in life many miraculous events happen, but we don’t take them seriously. We don’t notice because we just take them for granted. It’s like that. Just like our heart beats every day, but we don’t appreciate it until one day it stops or causes us trouble and reminds us that it’s there through some pain or something. Then maybe we feel wonder and say, “What a miraculous thing, that such a small heart like this keeps beating every day without us controlling it!”

It’s a miracle. Life is a miracle, and it’s full of miracles every day for most people. Unfortunately, however, sometimes we make a hell out of our lives. By listening to the ego, listening to our illusions and listening to the stubborn habits that we accumulate over the ears, we make life hell. Even if we live in Heaven, we make it a hell. That’s why Heaven can’t be a place for too many stubborn, stupid people because they would make a hell out of it.

It’s not that God or Saint Peter doesn’t want to let too many people come to Heaven. But if they go there, it will become a hell. So we don’t always have to ask God or the Master to be undiscriminating; we just have to know that even though the Master or God is compassionate, a person must be ready for that precise place or precise blessing.