Hamun and Giben were walking on the sand. Before them stretched the immensity of the sea, vanishing into the morning mist. "When I look at the sea, I think of death," said Hamun, "and I'm terrified. "Console me, if you can."
   Giben walked on a few paces in silence and then replied: "Two raindrops were falling together towards the ocean. One said to the other: 'I'm terrified of the ocean. Compared with its vastness, we are insignificant. It will engulf us without even noticing.'
   The other replied: 'We are the ocean.'"