In the ever changing, impermanent world, we struggle to find some stability. Human nature is that, if circumstances are in our favour, we wish to maintain the status quo and that is impossible. In this existence, everything changes except the ‘law of change’. We cannot step in the same river twice. The river changes every […]
If you think you’re a natural-born pessimist and there’s no hope of ever turning your mindset around, then think again! According to mental health experts, it is very much possible to turn into a person who always looks at a half-filled glass, rather than a half empty glass. It can be done. We just need […]
A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said, “I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.” “Is the man of the house home?”, they […]
A little girl walked daily to and from school. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trip to school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with thunder and lightning. The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as […]
From The Hidden Lamp Patacara was born into a rich family in India but eventually ran off to marry a pageboy. A tragedy hit her life when Patacara was about to deliver her second child. She lost her entire family in one day. Legend has it that her husband was bitten by a poisonous snake on the […]
When Swami Vivekananda went to USA, a lady asked him to marry her. When Swami-ji asked the lady about what made her ask him such a question. The lady replied that she was fascinated by his intellect. She wanted a child of such an intellect. So, she asked Swami-ji, whether he could marry her and […]
On his first day in office, as President Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, a man stood up, he was a rich Aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family”, and the whole Senate laughed. They thought they insulted Lincoln […]
If you worry too much about what other people think you will always be their prisoner. If you think you are what your friends and enemies say you are, you obviously do not know yourself. You can’t please everybody. Don’t let criticism worry you. Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. The faculty of imagination is […]
In a dream, I had an interview with God. “Come in,” God said to me, “So, you would like to interview Me?” “If You have the time,” I said. God smiled and said: “My time is called eternity and is enough to do everything. What questions do you have in mind to ask […]
Junaid, a famous mystic, was walking through the market-place with his disciples. They saw a man dragging a cow by a rope. Junaid told the man to wait and asked his disciples to surround them. “I am going to teach you something” and continued, “Tell me who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound […]
