For thousands of years, human beings have been wonderful storytellers. There’s a built-in yearning to get sucked into a story, to get lost in the drama of the moment, to orate and share your own tales with the world. Modern story tellers include movie producers and politicians, actors and artists, mothers and fathers. As a…
If you’re a parent, you know it seems like your kid is growing up so fast. “Just yesterday” he or she was learning to crawl… Then “the other day” he learned how to speak… Not literally. That was actually years ago. But it can seem like it was just yesterday and that’s what today’s video…
A Quaker had this sign put on a vacant piece of land next to his home: “THIS LAND WILL BE GIVEN TO ANYONE WHO IS TRULY SATISFIED.” A wealthy farmer who was riding by, stopped to read the sign and said to himself, “Since our friend the Quaker is so ready to part with this…
King Pyrrhus of Epirus was approached by his friend Cyneas and asked, If you conquer Rome, what will you do next, sir? Pyrrhus replied, Sicily is next door and will be easy to take. And what shall we do after Sicily is taken? Then we will move over to Africa and sack Carthage. And after…
I have heard a story. It happened in Ajmer… You must have heard about one Sufi mystic, Moinuddin Chishti, whose dargah, whose tomb, is in Ajmer. Chishti was a great mystic, one of the greatest ever born, and he was a musician. To be a musician is to be against Islam because music is prohibited….
Rabia el Adawiya is one of the rarest women in the whole human history. There are only a few names that can be compared to Rabia, but still she remains rare, even among these few names — Meera, Theresa, Laila. These are the few names. But Rabia still remains rare. She is a KOHINOOR, the…
One Sufi mystic who had remained happy his whole life — no one had ever seen him unhappy — who was always laughing, who was laughter, whose whole being was a perfume of celebration…. In his old age, when he was dying, on his deathbed and still enjoying death, laughing hilariously, a disciple asked, “You…
A few years ago I was at a school seeing if it was a good fit for my son after our move, and I had a conversation with one of the older kids: Kid: “Hey.” Me: “Hey. How are you?” Kid: “Not so good. I’m stupid.” Me: “I don’t believe that.” The boy explains how…
Screaming souls trapped and calling out. This is the Lower Level Dimension. There are many levels of dimension, with Beings protecting the cross roads from one to the next. Lower Level Dimension Never had Soul understood why helping and reaching out to others in life was the key to happiness; love for himself had diminished…
The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found the seat he had told her was empty. Then she settled…
