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Inspirational
Stories
Belongings
In the last century, a tourist from the States visited
the famous Polish rabbi Hafez Hayyim.
He was astonished to see that the rabbi's home
was only a simple room filled with books. The only
furniture was a table and a bench.
"Rabbi,
where is your furniture?" asked the tourist.
"Where
is yours?" replied Hafez.
"Mine?
But I'm only a visitor here."
"So
am I," said the rabbi.
-Anthony De Mello, S.J.
Obstacles
An old farmer had plowed around a large rock in one of his
fields for years. He
had broken several plowshares and a cultivator on it and had
grown rather morbid
about the rock.
After breaking another plowshare one day, and remembering
all the trouble the
rock had caused him through the years, he finally decided
to do something about it.
When he put the crowbar under the rock, he was surprised to
discover that it was
only about six inches thick and that he could break it up
easily with a
sledgehammer. As he was carting the pieces away he had to
smile, remembering all
the trouble that the rock had caused him over the years and
how easy it would
have been to ged rid of it sooner.
-Brian Cavanaugh
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Cosmos
of Happiness
