It appears unattributed in a 1991 novel by Dan Millman, in which a spiritual seeker asks his wise teacher, "here are so many – how can make any difference?" She replies, "It makes a difference to this one." In this version the conversation is related between other characters, an older man and a younger one, a wise man and a little girl, or Jesus and a man. The story has been adapted and retold by motivational speakers and on internet sites, often without attribution, since at least the mid-1980s. We had lost our way, I thought, but we had kept, some of us, the memory of the perfect circle of compassion from life to death and back to life again." ( The Star Thrower, p.181) After us, there will be others.Perhaps far outward on the rim of space a genuine star was similarly seized and flung.For a moment, we cast on an infinite beach together beside an unknown hurler of suns. "Call me another thrower." Only then I allowed myself to think, He is not alone any longer. "On a point of land, I found the star thrower.I spoke once briefly. Later, after some thoughts on our relationships to other animals and to the universe, the narrator returns to the beach:
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