What was said was for you, and you alone.

Just after his visit with the Oracle, Morpheus tells Neo, “What was said was for you, and you alone.” I have always taken this statement to mean that Neo must not reveal what the Oracle told him to anyone else. But a recent insight suggest a more nuanced interpretation.

I was listening to something on the radio the other day that really moved me. When I shared it with others, it was clear that they did not find it as moving. I suppose this situation exposes another related misapprehension of mine. The weight and depth behind a nugget of wisdom is not the same for everyone who encounters it. The  resulting effect is more related to where the listener is on his/her journey than it is in the content of the message.  So it doesn't matter if Neo tells anyone because it will not have the same meaning to another. It will only have the specific effect it is meant to have on him and him alone.

As usual, it takes me a little while to catch up with the rest of you. So that was 17 or 18 years… have I missed any thing else since?

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