Two brothers, one a bachelor, the other married, owned a farm whose fertile soil yielded an abundance of grain. Half the grain went to one brother and half to the other. All went well at first. Then, every now and then, the bachelor one began to wake with a start from his sleep at […]
Spiritual Story by Zura Ledbetter There was a sweet, wonder-filled little girl who was hurt over and over so badly that she entered adult life assuming that she was so bad that others just couldn’t be nice to her. What she didn’t know until much later, was that God had given her an extra dose […]
“Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas. A human being is a part of the whole called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind […]
We are all meant to transcend our apparent limitations… Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained. Months passed and one day the […]
The owner of a small business, a friend of the poet Olavo Bilac, met him on the street and asked him, “Mr. Bilac, I want to sell my small farm, the one you know so well. Could you please write an announcement for me for the newspaper?” Bilac wrote: “FOR SALE: A beautiful property, […]
We need to be constantly reminded about the values we need to imbibe and the negative attitude we need to avoid to make our lives a fulfilling one with contentment, peace and joy. The most powerful force in life: LOVE! The greatest asset: […]
GANDHI JAYANTI Once upon a time, a common man faced a common incidence, but it then turned him into an uncommon man-became a nation’s pride. He taught the world the lesson of non-violence, he taught us to live simple. A man who was so simple yet so complicated that he was driving a whole nation, and […]
1) Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to discover joy and pleasure in simple and the most insignificant things. 2) Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears. […]
A young man called Ramaswamy died an untimely death. His parents, wife and nine year old son were crying bitterly sitting next to his dead body. They all happened to be disciples of a holy man whom they called ‘Guru-ji’. When Guru-ji learnt that Ramaswamy had died, he came to visit the family. He entered the […]
