Compassion as well as helplessness of a mystic.

As you grow in material world, with experience many idioms and story heard, in younger age, cast a different shade of teachings behind them. As one grows in spiritual world or inner world the same idiom or quote or story points towards an altogether different meaning and lesson there from. Jokes by Osho or small stories by Buddha too have different shades of lessons behind them. In a way they act as milestones in your inner journey! At the same time they get further path lighted to make journey a celebration by raising level of confidence. A story i heard had a different meaning then for me and now its meaning is changed altogether. The story is about efforts of a person to save lives of fishes that were washed away to shore by waves of high magnitude. One by one he was throwing them back t