In one of the great court banquets, everyone was
seated according to rank, waiting the entry of the King. In came a plain, shabby man and took a seat above everyone else. His boldness angered the prime minister who ordered the newcomer to identify himself. Was he a minister? No. More. Was he the King? No. More. “Are you then God?” asked the prime minister. “I am above that also,” replied the poor man. “There is nothing beyond God,” retorted the prime minister. “That nothing,” came the response, “is me” (Carse 3).

Carse, James P. Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience. Revised ed. edition. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperOne, 1995. Print.