First, I was a king dressed as a beggar, walking in an alien land. It was an alien land, yes. A land filled with mocking laughs and malicious comments. A land that looked so alien even to the one who was ruling it…

Story 4 children » On a farm in the heart of India, there lived a farmer and his wife. They were rather poor, but earned their living by collecting milk from all the farms in the area to sell it on the market in the city…

In common with other Sufi masters, the essence of Rumi’s teaching is the primacy of Divine Love and the idea of Tawheed (unity). Rumi believed that all religions are basically one. The seeker longs to be reunited with the Beloved (the primal root) from which he has been cut off…

So he went to the other village and he said, “Sir, I am sorry for what I said. Please forgive me. It’s all wrong and I should not have done it. You can punish me the way you like.”

There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit.

“Daddy, what happened to him?” the son asked. “He died and went to Heaven,” the Dad replied. The boy thought a moment and then said, “Did God throw him back down?”

There was a joke like this, that one gentleman was going on the staircase and another was coming from the top. So this gentleman who was going up there said to the other, “please move.”

here was a teacher in China who used to teach the cocks how to fight. And the king of that place took his cocks to that teacher and told him that you please teach them how to fight.

This is what it is: Humility is a sign. How you talk to others, immediately people will know that you have the authority from God. In spirituality, the first and foremost thing is that the person becomes very meek, very humble in his heart.

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”