There is a lesson to be learnt from this: that each of those two almond kernels has a curve, some part of it is removed, is gone, in order to let the other grow. If the two almonds had pushed one another they would never have grown. It was done by reciprocity; it was as if they said, "I will let you grow," "I will let you grow too," "Some part of my being will be held in check," "We shall grow as one almond." But when that conception is not there, then there is no chance of growing together; that is the lesson which mankind has to learn.