UBUNTU is a very nice story from Africa. The motivation behind the Ubuntu culture in Africa. An anthropologist visiting Africa proposed a game to the tribal children … He placed a basket…
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A bunch of flowers
A bus was bumping along a backroad in the south of India. In one seat sat an old man, holding a bunch of fresh flowers. Across the aisle was a young girl…
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The hand
On the eve of Thanksgiving Day, a school teacher asked her class of nursery school children to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these…
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Kindness pays!
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one dime left, and he was hungry. He decided…
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From Guru Nanak’s life
Once Guru Nanak was on a visit to Banaras with his disciples. As the night approached, he reached a village and decided to spend the night there. The people of the village…
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Making a difference
An old man was out for a walk along the beach near his house early in the morning. Ahead of him, he saw a young girl who was walking at the edge…
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A puppy for sale
A farmer had some puppies to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving…
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Sharing the seeds
Every year, in October, Half Moon Bay in California, USA, holds a pumpkin competition. The biggest pumpkin grown in a season wins. One winner, upon accepting the prize, gave a handful of…
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‘Bhootabhrute namaha’
In the famous Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, a long line of devotees would patiently wait for the delicious prasadam, even a few centuries ago. A poor Vaishnavite used to be…
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Who insults you?
When Abraham Lincoln became the President of America, his father was a shoemaker. And, naturally, egoistic people were very much offended that a shoemaker’s son should become the President. On the first…