“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 […]
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 […]
THE PASTOR’S ASS The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the Race again, and it won again. The local paper read: PASTOR’S ASS OUT FRONT The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he […]
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 […]
On a certain occasion, during an elegant welcoming reception for the new Director of Marketing of an important London company, some of the wives of the other directors, who wanted to get acquainted with the spouse of the Director, asked her with some hesitation: “Does your spouse make you happy, truly happy?” The husband, […]
I was shocked, confused, bewildered As I entered Heaven’s door, Not by the beauty of it all, Nor the lights or its decor But it was the folks in Heaven Who made me sputter and gasp — The thieves, the liars, the sinners, The alcoholics and the trash There stood the kid from seventh […]
