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Life
Happiness Anecdotes & Quotes
The following section is a
small collection of insightful anecdotes that I collected over the years from
the east.
The Nightly
Ghost
A mother could not get her
son to come home before sunset. So, she told him that the road outside was
haunted by ghosts after sunset. When the boy grew up, he was so afraid
of ghosts that he refused to go out at night. So she gave him a medal and told
him that it would protect him.
Lesson: Bad education
gives him faith in the medal. Good education gets him to see that ghosts do not
exist.
Question: What are you
ghosts and your medals?.
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The
Spiritual Cat
Each time the guru sat for
worship with his students, the temple cat would come in to distract them, so he
ordered them to tie it during prayer time. After
the guru died, the cat continued to be tied at worship time. When the cat died,
another cat was brought into the temple to make sure that the guru's orders
were faithfully observed. Centuries passed and books were written by the guru's
scholarly disciples on the spiritual significance of tying up a cat while
worship is performed.
Lesson: Not all rituals
are useful. Regardless how many scholars say so and for how long.
Question: What are the
useful, useless and harmful religious, social and career rituals in your life?
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The Key
A neighbor found
"Joha" on hands and knees. What are you
searching for Joha? he asked.
My keys, replied Joha.
So his neighbor got on his
knees to search. After a while the neighbor said, "Are you sure you lost
it here?"
No, replied
Joha. I lost it at home.
"Good Lord! Then why
are you searching here?" asked the neighbor.
"Because there is
more light here!"
replied Joha.
Lesson: Search for happiness where you lost it.
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The Donkey
A man left his donkey
unattended at the marketplace while he went shopping.
When he remembered the donkey, he rushed to find the donkey exactly where he
had left it. Overwhelmed with joy, he rushed to the nearby temple to thank God
for keeping his donkey safe, only to find, when he got out of the temple that
the donkey was stolen.
Lesson: God need not be in
mosques, church, or temples and devil need not be in the marketplace.
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Religious
Love
An alien came to earth and
saw so many ashrams, churches, mosques, and temples, so he said to his human
friend, "You must be proud of your earth, I was especially impressed by the
number of worship places in it. Surely the people here must love God", "Well", the man replied, they may love
God, but they sure as hell hate each other."
- No Comment!
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Belief & Unbelief
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind
belief in another.
- Georg Lichtenberg
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