Jesus and his disciples came across a dead dog in the street. They said, “How it stinks!” He said, “See how beautifully white and sharp its teeth are!”
The internet has added a new layer to attribution difficulties. I have read that this comes from an apocryphal gospel, then from a Hadith. I like the challenge in the saying, the different perspective (whether or not that is a behovely perspective). So it does not matter whether it happened, only whether it is True.
Though when Legalist (ie, fear based totalitarian) thoughts are attributed to Confucius, it is good to see that they are not his thoughts.
Gospel of Thomas saying 37:
His disciples said: “When will you appear to us, and when will we see you?”
Jesus said: “When you undress without being ashamed and take your clothes and put them under your feet like little children and trample on them, then you will see the son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid.”
When I first read this, I thought an apocryphal gospel was less reliable than a Biblical gospel. That allowed me to distrust its sayings, and at first I thought this one was just gibberish. And then it made sense to me, and I found it wonderful. And now I do not want to interpret it for anyone, lest my interpretation limit it. Now I can play with a Jesus saying: what might it mean? What might it mean for me, now?
Clare Flourish 
If it is right for you then it is true, for you, and you are right not to interpret for others let them find their own truth. Well done Clare
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Thank you David.
Do not speak wisdom.
When her body is concrete
her soul vanishes.
However, interpretations may have some value as long as one does not imagine that one has The interpretation. And the discipline of worship, reading and listening to Sermons, different interpretations, can be valuable.
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