Not as important as we think we are

This is a very important chapter in the book because it concludes the teachings and shows the reader the relationship that has grown between teacher and student. It is nice to see how their relationship has gone beyond the teachings and Ishmael now considers the narrator a friend and the narrator now considers Ishmael a friend. In this chapter they come up with some very important conclusions like, on page 237 "Man became man by living in the hands of god." and on page 238 “According to the Taker story, creation came to an end with man.". These quote made me think of the conclusions that they were going after and what they were trying to find. Throughout the book I have liked what Ishmael thinks of the takers and the leavers and I realized what the biggest problem with takers was. Takers think they are the best and that they cannot get any better. They believe that creation reached an end with man and by thinking like that they won’t be able to evolve and advance.
A quote that made me start thinking of what I was doing was on page 243 the pupil states “In other words, the world doesn’t need to belong to man-but it does need man to belong to it.” This impressed me because the whole book they have been talking of how the world was made for man and here they state that man doesn’t have to rule the word but the world needs man to be part of it. Ishmael now decides to conclude his session by telling the narrator that he has passed on his knowledge to him and that he must now pass it on to everyone else. At the end of the chapter I kept thinking of the quote on page 243 and what it meant. After a while I realized something very important which is, that I have to change my mentality and stop thinking that takers are the center off the world and that we are not as important as we think we are.