“A young widower, who loved his five year old son very much, was away on business when bandits came who burned down the whole village and took his son away. When the man returned, he saw the ruins and panicked. He took the burnt corpse of an infant to be his son and cried uncontrollably. […]

Death asked Life: “Why does everyone love you and hate me?”  Life replied: Because I am a beautiful lie and you are a painful truth” For most of us who are ignorant of our Real Self death is the painful truth. The easiest thing to do in life is a mistake; but our progress lies […]

How hard is it to control the mind?! Well it has been compared to the maddened monkey. There was a monkey, restless by his own nature, as all monkeys are. As if that were not enough, someone made him drink plenty of wine, so that he became still more restless. Then a scorpion stung him. […]

A mouse was in constant distress because of its fear of the cat. A saint took pity on it and turned it into a cat. But then it became afraid of the dog. So the saint turned it into a dog. Then it began to fear the panther, so the saint turned it into a […]

There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot to play with, out in the woods. He practiced in the woods, but he could never hit the target. Getting a little discouraged, he headed back home for dinner. As he was walking back he saw Grandma’s pet duck. […]

1) If it feels wrong, don’t do it. If we don’t want others to know we should not do it in the first place. If we do something that we feel is wrong, it will always prick our conscience. We will live to regret our action the rest of our lives. No one wants his […]

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, “It is time for me to […]

On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. “One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,” […]

Intelligence without love makes us perverse. Fairness and justness without love makes us inflexible and stern. Diplomacy and tact without love makes us a hypocrite. Success without love turns us arrogant. Wealth without love makes us mean and tight-fisted. Poverty without love turns us into a radical. Beauty without love makes us capricious. Authority and […]