Welcome to Spiritual Short Stories!
This is the most comprehensive website on the internet devoted specifically to spiritual stories. Although there is a very large collection of parables, many of the spiritual stories are written by and for people just like yourself. Contributions are welcome, so please feel free to submit your favorite spiritual story using the link at the bottom of the page. Enjoy! :)
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Featured Spiritual Story:
The Beloved Man |
A Siberian shaman asked God to show him a man that He loved. The Lord advised him to look for a certain farmer.
âWhat do you do to make the Lord love you so much?â the shaman asked the farmer when he found him.
âI say His name in the morning. I work all day and say His name before going to sleep. Thatâs all,â the farmer replied.
I think I found the wrong man, thought the shaman.... |
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Featured Spiritual Parable:
The Powerful Wizards of Chattatook |
Truth is the source of all power. It is the foundation from which all exist. Since lies are the absence of truth, power does not exist, without the presence of truth.
How do leaders who do evil stay in power. The people, being evil themselves, choose their leaders after their own image and being apathetic to their lies and afraid of change, they continue with them.
But there are those, who have the power to change evil in this world.
Our story begins, in the sleepy land of Chattatook. |
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Spiritual Movie Review:
Tuesdays With Morrie |
I found it to be a delightful coincidence that this movie arrived in my mailbox on a Tuesday, of all days. This was just the first of a series of moments of delight as a dying teacher named Morrie teaches what may be the greatest lesson of all: life.
His student is Mitch, a workaholic who is afraid of death, crying and love. This movie will undoubtedly make you want to kick up your heels and enjoy the simple things in life as you watch an incredible transformation
take place... and if you're open to the wisdom in Morrie's final and best course, you might even discover some unexpected joy and a childlike sense of wonder. |
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Spiritual Book Review:
Find A Quiet Corner by Nancy O'Hara |
There is a square-yard space in my house that I avoid. It beckons to me. When I grow increasingly stubborn, it taunts me. I know what it's doing. And yet there is nothing in that space. Not a desk. Not a book. Not a word.
It is, what author Nancy O'Hara would call, my quiet corner. I've meditated there before, sat there silently while the ten-minute timer ticked away, felt better for it. So, why am I so resistant? O'Hara says several times in her book Find a Quiet Corner: Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere that there is great value to submitting. The pain of sitting still will slide away. The chatter in my mind will quell. The urgency to hurry up and finish will melt away.
The book – which is actually two of O'Hara's books, Find a Quiet Corner and Serenity in Motion â possesses an eloquent quietude. Its words slip easily in – never bossy or arrogant – a hot knife through butter. The first book is about breathing, and I found myself breathing deeply just at the suggestion. I journal every morning, and blog every night – but I never thought of O'Hara's idea of having a journal right at the quiet corner, to write right after the calm, centering exercises. AKA breathing. This patch of carpet where I've meditated before is against the wall, cuddled between a cylindrical wicker laundry basket I bought right out of college in NY and the end of my treadmill.
The other half of her book explores times in our life, like bathing, celebrations, money, change, and what she calls broken shoelaces – when things go wrong. There's waiting, too. I have great joy in my life, because I do love the simple things. I immerse my hands in warm, soapy water and enjoy it, I dance always like no one is watching, I connect in conversation. But, waiting, uh-oh. There's my Achille's Heel. Hoping, too. Basically, my mind constructs elaborate fantasies about what will happen when this certain guy sees me again, when this agent receives my manuscript, when my older son gets out of the hospital. O'Hara recommends simply sinking into the truth of the moment.
It occurs to me that the writerly part of my brain might appreciate that inclination to fantasize, and that draws a smile. I'll say yes tomorrow morning to that burgundy patch of carpet, snuggle in next to the old wicker basket, and see what comes out of my pen.
This guest review is brought to you in partnership with Diana Page Jordan who also does interviews with authors at her website, in addition to her book reviews like this one. |
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Spiritual Quote of the Moment |
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself."
- Erich Fromm |
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