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 Here’s the classic moral story version people usually mean: The Crow Imitating the Pigeon’s Walk A crow once saw a pigeon walking gracefully near some houses and being fed by people. The crow thought the pigeon’s life was easy and happy. Wanting the same comfort, the crow began to imitate the pigeon’s walk. Day after day, the crow practiced walking like the pigeon. But it could not do it properly. Worse, it slowly forgot its own way of walking. When the crow finally tried to return to its old life, it couldn’t walk like a crow anymore—nor like a pigeon. Ashamed and helpless, the crow realized its mistake. Moral Do not imitate others blindly; be yourself. (Also said as: Trying to copy others makes you lose your own identity.)

Chapter 26  On Religion  AND an old priest said, “Speak to us of Religion.” And he said: Have I spoken this day of aught else? Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom? Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? Who can spread his hours before him, saying, “This for God and this for myself; “This for my soul and this other for my body”? All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self. He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his songbird in a cage. The freest song comes not through bars and wires. And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to ...

Chapter 11  On Buying & Selling  AND a merchant said, Speak to us of Buying and Selling. And he answered and said: To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. When in the market-place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices, – Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value. And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour. To such men you should say: “Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net; For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.” And if ...

Chapter 8   On joy & Sorrow THEN a woman said,rk with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. 16  Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow. And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you a...

    Chapter 4  On Children  AND a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of to-morrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves al...

KAHLIL GIBRAN  artist, poet, writer, philosopher and theologian The Prophet Gibran, Kahlil Published: 1923 Categorie(s): Fiction, Poetry Source: http://gutenberg.net.au 1 About Gibran: from Wikipedia: Kahlil Gibran (full name Gibran Kahlil Gibran bin Mikhael bin Saâd, (born January 6, 1883 in Bsharri, Lebanon; died April 10, 1931 in New York City, United States) was a Lebanese artist, poet, writer, philosopher and theologian. He was born in Lebanon (at the time part of Syria) and spent most of his life in the United States. He is the third bestselling poet in history after William Shakespeare and Lao Tse. Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes. Chapter 1 The Coming of the Ship  ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city ...

You can always meditate your way to success   Meditation can be a powerful tool for achieving success in both personal and professional settings. Here are some potential benefits of incorporating meditation into your routine: Improved focus and concentration : By regularly practicing meditation, you can learn to quiet the mind and increase your ability to focus and concentrate on a single task. This can be especially beneficial in a busy, fast-paced world where distractions are everywhere. Increased creativity and problem-solving abilities : Meditation can help to clear the mind and allow for more creative thinking and problem-solving. It can also help to reduce stress and anxiety , which can sometimes inhibit creative thinking. Better decision-making skills : Regular meditation can help to improve your ability to make decisions by increasing your clarity of thought and reducing emotional reactivity . This can be especially helpful in high-pressure situations where quick, deci...

Energy fine tuning frequency   Sometimes we all need that little push in the right direction, or some unexpected out of the blue encounter to give us a hint about something that we needed help with. Well maybe these inspiring hand picked picturesque quotes  may just be the ones that will give you that extra needed push.                                                                             1.    Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. 2. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. 3. It does not matter how slow you go as long you do not stop. 4. Our greatest    glory is not in never falling, but in rising   every  time we fall. 5. Eve...

Wisdom through the ages as seen through the eyes of the most powerful and insightful minds, yet still truer than ever nowadays.

Wisdom through age as seen through the eyes of the most powerful insightful minds throughout history , yet truer than ever nowadays.

Wisdom through the ages as seen through the eyes of the most powerful minds throughout history, yet still truer than ever nowadays

Wisdom through the ages as seen through the eyes of the most powerful minds throughout history, yet still truer than ever nowadays

  A quote A quote my pictures for A quote Ever wonder how a quote or saying can have a meaning only a book can explain, in another word a quote can fill a book to make it understandable. That's the power of quotes, written in simple language but it takes a trained mind to comprehend. These gems have lot to teach, it's almost a library.  The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth You are what you think There is no illusion greater than fear The funniest people are  the saddest ones Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life

Wisdom through the ages as seen  through the eyes of the most insightful minds throughout history and yet more truer than ever nowadays.

Ever wonder; for a moment; how every-thing is relative to everything else ,  meaning, everything, without exception.              To put it in perspective , every quote in the above collage is somehow indirectly completing the next one in a meaningful way, without being from the same thought process, it gives it the illusion of one. Keeping this idea in mind, one can imagine a variety of scenarios where the relativity factor always plays the main character in the scheme of things. Furthermore, the idea of “everything is related to everything else” can seem a bit confusing for the untrained eyes, because of the its novelty, but with switching between focus and unfocus states it will begin to reveal its powerful significance. There is no limit of one’s understanding, because the idea itself is limitless. Simply said, that what you see it’s not what it is, it is just an illusion of the imagination ...

Wisdom through the ages as seen by the power of insight with a mind detached from any disappointing expectation. 

If a picture is worth a thousand words a word is worth a thousand pictures

Wisdom through the ages as seen through the eyes of powerful insightful minds throughout history.

Blast from the past 

Wisdom through the ages; seen through powerfully insightful eyes, being said yet truer moreover nowadays