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  • Don’t be afraid to make mistakes

    This story is about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. He was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter who asked him why he thought he was…

  • “I wish you enough”

    At an airport, I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane’s departure and standing near the door, he said to his daughter, “I love…

  • The kiss

    “Getting late for a meeting, need to run,” he said as he slung his coat over the shoulder and bounded out of the house. As he drove away, she came running down…

  • “How are your children?”

    “How are your children?” “Both of them are very well, thank you.” “How old are they?” “The doctor is three and the lawyer is five.” Anthony de Mello The Prayer of the…

  • Contact vs. Connection

    A Monk of the Ramakrishna Mission was being interviewed by a journalist from New York. Journalist:  “Sir, in your last lecture, you told us about Jogajog (Contact) and Sanjog (Connection). It’s really…

  • We are never alone

    Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage? His father takes him into the forest…blindfolded…and leaves him….alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole…

  • Man and his four wives

    Gautama Buddha said that each person has four wives or husbands in their lives. To understand what he meant, we should first read the short story of ‘A Man and His Four…