Lao Tzu Excessive ambitions necessarily entail great sacrifices. Much hoarding must be followed by heavy loss. He who knows when he has enough. Will not be put to shame. Such a man can look forward to long life.
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The Chinese Wisdom It matters not what you learn; but when you once learn a thing, you must never give it up until you have mastered it. It matters not what you inquire into; but when you inquire into a thing, you must never give it up until you have thoroughly understood it. It matters
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Indian Fables by P.V.Ramswami Raju A Jackdaw once ran up to a glow-worm, and was about to seize him. “Wait a moment, good friend,” said the worm; “and you shall hear something to your advantage.” “Ah! what is it?” said the daw. “I am but one of the many glow-worms that live in this forest.
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KUAN-YI-WU. 500 B.C Allow the ear to hear what it likes, the eye to see what it likes, the mouth to say what it likes, the body to enjoy the comforts it likes to have, and the mind to do what it likes. Now, what the ear likes to hear is music, and the prohibition
Idries Shah A Sufi master was visited by a perplexed Seeker-after-Truth, who said to him :‘I have only one question to ask. Why is it that, wherever I go, I always seemed to get different pieces of advice from Sufis?’The master answered :‘Come with me for a walk through this town, and we shall see
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‘Saadi of Shiraz’, in his ‘Bostan‘, stated an important truth when he told this miniature tale :A man met another, who was handsome, intelligent and elegant. He asked him who he was. The other said : ‘I am the Devil.’ ‘But you cannot be,’ said the first man, ‘for the devil is evil and ugly.’‘My
Mulla Nasrudin Effendi One day, Nasrudin’s neighbor peered over the fence and saw the Mulla digging a huge hole. “Are you gardening?” he inquired. “No,” answered Mulla, “I’m burying the rubble from building the house. It’s taking up half the garden.” “What about the earth you’re digging up?” asked the neighbor. “Simple,” said Mulla, “I’ll
One day, ‘Nasrudin’ was shopping in the bazaar when a man walked up behind him and slapped him on the back of the head.‘I must apologize,’ said his attacker as the Mulla spun round. ‘I thought you were someone else.’Not satisfied with an apology,’ Nasrudin’ took the man to court. But it turned out that
Fariduddin Attar There is a saying, ‘Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.’ The Teaching is the worldly manifestation of something, and as such a manifestation it is affected by the deforming character in appearance and operation of those who adopt it into their culture without understanding its inner dimensions. Listen to what happened to
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Chuang Tzu He who knows what God is, and who knows what man is, has attained. Knowing what God is, he knows that he himself proceeded therefrom.Knowing what man is, he rests in the knowledge of the known, waiting for the knowledge edge of the unknown. Working out one’s allotted span, and not perishing in
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