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A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 100ml to 200ml.  She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn't change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."  She continued, "The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapabl...

A soldier went to a sage and said, "I have faced death many times, defended weak, helped people in need and i know i have never done anything to be ashamed of. Yet when i see you meditating in peace, i feel like my life have no importance and i feel so inferior." Sage replied, "I will answer you once i attend all those who came to see me, wait till then." Soldier waited whole day, watching people go in and out for advice. He saw that sage received all of them with patience and smile on this face. At nightfall when everyone was gone, he went to sage and said, "Can you teach me now??" Sage invited him inside and lead him to his room. The full moon shone in the sky, and the atmosphere was one of profound tranquility. Sage pointed towards the moon and said, 'Do you see moon?? Should moon ask why i don't shine like sun?? Is it because i am inferior to sun??" Soldier answered, "Of course not..!! They both are different and have their own...

There once lived a rich businessman who had a lazy and fun loving son, simply spending father’s money. One day he summoned his son and said: “Today, I want you to go out and earn something, failing which you won’t have your meals tonight.” This demand by his father scared him and he went crying straight to his mother. Her heart melted at the sight of tears in her son’s eyes. In a bid to help him she gave him a gold coin. In the evening when the father asked his son what he had earned, the son promptly presented him the gold coin. The father then asked him to throw it into a well. The son did as he was told. The father was a man of wisdom and experience and understood that the source of the gold coin was the boy’s mother. The next day he sent his wife to her parent’s town and asked his son to go and earn something with the threat of being denied the night meals if he failed. This time he went crying to his sister who sympathized with him a...

Once a father and son went to the kite flying festival. The young son became very happy seeing the sky filled with colorful kites. He too asked his father to get him a kite and a thread with a roller so he can fly a kite too. So, the father went to the shop at the park where the festival was being held. He purchased kites and a roll of thread for his son. His son started to fly a kite.  Soon, his kite reached high up in the sky.  After a while, the son said, “Father, It seems that the thread is holding up a kite from flying higher, If we break it, It will be free and will go flying even higher.  Can we break it?”   So, the father cut the thread from a roller.  The kite started to go a little higher.  That made a son very happy. But then, slowly, the kite started to come down. And, soon it fell down on the terrace of the unknown building. The young son was surprised to see this. He had cut the kite loose of its thread so it can fly high...

Long ago Scotland was ruled by King Bruce. During his time Scotland and England were always at war. The English wanted to conquer Scotland and make it a part of their empire. Thus, the mighty English army once defeated King Bruce and his men. King Bruce collected his forces and was at war again with the English soldiers. This time too it seemed like defeat for the Scots. Defeated, King Bruce left the battlefield and sat in one of the caves in the hills. He felt it was no use to fight any more as they were bound to loose. As he was thus sitting in the cave with his spirits down he saw a spider building a web. It had almost completed when a gust of wind flew it away. Patiently the spider started to build another one right from the beginning. Finding nothing better to do. King Bruce was absorbed in watching the Spider. The second time too the spider's web was blown off. It promptly began to build another one. King Bruce wondered at the perseverance of that tiny insec...

Once a man went to saint and said, I desire to be better in my life. Please guide me. Saint gave him some cotton, one candle and one needle and said, "here take these, they are your guide.” Man wondered and asked, “Maharaj, I am not able to understand why you gave me all these things? How are these things going to help me in making my life better? Saint smiled and said, each of these things which I gave you has deep meaning of their own. ** The beauty of cotton is that it is used to make thread which is used to make clothes that protects the honor of a man. ~ Similarly, you should always be honoring others. ** Candle burns and melts to give light to others. Similarly, you should sacrifice yourself to brighten other’s life. ** Needle stitches the torn clothes. Similarly, you should help to mend broken hearts of people. After listening this, man understood the way to make life better. Lesson : A good human is one who contributes to make other’s life be...

Once a ship was wrecked in a storm and only survivor left was washed up on a small inhabited island. He prayed to God to rescue him but for days there was no help and no one came to rescue him. Exhausted, one day he look around for things and built a little hut for himself using the wood from the drifted parts of wrecked ship. He felt very bad that his prayers are not listened and he have to stay here alone at this island. He collected things from around to help him live by and kept all those inside hut till he can find any help. Days were going by but one day when he was gone for scavenging food. After a while when he came back to find his hut in flames and all possession burned inside that hut. Man was broken, he lost everything he built till now. He was stunned with grief and anger. He cried and shouted looking toward sky, "Why God? Why? how could you do this to me??" However early next day he was awakened by the sound of ship that was approaching that island. He wa...

Once a man came to the Sage and said, “Oh Sage, I have many bad habits. Which one of them should I give up first?” The Sage said, “Give up telling lies first and always speak the truth.” The man promised to do so and went home. At night the man was about to go out to steal. Before setting out, he thought for a moment about the promise he made with the Sage. “If tomorrow the Sage asks me where have I been, what shall I say? Shall I say that I went out stealing? No, I cannot say that. But nor can I lie. If I tell the truth, everyone will start hating me and call me a thief. I would be punished for stealing.” So the man decided not to steal that night, and gave up this bad habit. Next day, he felt like drinking wine. When he was about to do so, he said to himself, “What shall I say to the Sage if he asks me what did I do during the day? I cannot tell a lie, and if I speak the truth people will hate me.” And so he gave up the idea of...

Once a thirsty Stag was roaming around in the forest in search of water. After a while he found a clear water lake. Stag went to lake and drank water. After drinking water while looking in the water, he saw his own reflection. In reflection, he saw his beautiful horns. He was so happy to see how beautiful his horns are and admired them. But as soon as he saw reflection of his legs, he despised them because they were looking thin and ugly. Just then Stag heard sound of someone approaching toward the lake. Stag saw and there were bunch of wild dogs who were running towards the lake. Stag got scared, and in great fear he started to run. In order to save himself he ran fast in opposite direction. While running stag got caught upon the creepers because of his horns and couldn't free himself. Stag tried really hard to free itself from creepers but even after many tries, he couldn’t free himself. In the meantime, Dogs who were chasing him, caught up to him and killed him. Just bef...

Once upon a time, there was a king who had gone to visit neighboring kingdoms. During his visit, he was gifted with a pair of baby Macaw Parrots. They were the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. So, upon returning to his kingdom, he called for a bird trainer and asked him to train macaw parrots. The king also arranged a place in the palace garden for the parrots. He often looked at them from his palace window. As time passed, one day the trainer came to the palace and informed the king that though one of the parrots was flying majestically high in the sky, the other one was not moving from its branch since the day it had arrived. Upon hearing this, the king summoned trainer and healers from the nearby kingdoms. They all tried their best, but couldn’t make the parrot fly! He even asked his courtiers to try to find a way to make the parrot fly but they all failed.  The parrot was not moving from his branch at all. Finally, after trying everything, the king thought that ...

Once upon a time, there was a Kingdom. The king there had only one leg and one eye, but he was very intelligent and kind. Everyone in his kingdom lived a happy and healthy life because of their king. One day the king was walking through the palace hallway and saw the portraits of his ancestors. He thought that one day his children will walk in the same hallway and remember all the ancestors through these portraits. But, the king did not have his portrait painted. Due to his physical disabilities, he wasn’t sure how his painting would turn out.  So he invited many famous painters to the court. The king then announced that he wants a beautiful portrait made of himself to be placed in the palace. Any painter who can carry out this should come forward. He will be rewarded based on how the painting turns up. All greatly skilled painters began to think that the king only has one leg and one eye. How can his picture be made very beautiful? So one by one, all started to make excu...