Spiritual U-Turns
“It’s been two whole years, Kenny! I can’t wait to see you!” Remembering Mom’s exuberance disrupted the directions in my head, and I slowed to a stop. No other...
Second Chance
SECOND CHANCE (a story of redemption and transformation) “I don’t care what your friend says, they’re my dishes and I want you to pack them the way I say...
Have You Not Heard The News That God Is Dead?
There is a parable in Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Thus spake Zarathustra’…. Zarathustra comes down from the mountains and he meets an old hermit who is praying to god. Zarathustra laughs...
The Thought And The Reality….
The Hindu heaven has certain trees, which they call kalpavriksha, wish-fulfillment trees. You don’t have to order a cup of tea or a woman or a car; you don’t...
Bundle Of Mmisery
There is a Sufi parable: A man used to call every night to God and he would pray the same prayer. Again and again he would ask, “Do one...
The Great Sleep
I have-heard a very beautiful Jewish story. It is tremendously significant — it is about a man: He was always sleepy. And always ready to sleep. Everywhere. At the...
Priest And The Prayer
Leo Tolstoy has written a beautiful story: Three men became very famous saints in Russia. The highest priest of the country was very much disturbed — obviously, because people...
Billionaire’s Bliss
I have heard, just before his death, a billionaire became aware that he had never experienced bliss. He must have been fortunate. Some people become aware only after death....
Mantra And The Monkeys
I have always told an ancient Tibetan story…. A young man was very much interested in the esoteric, in the mysterious. He found a saint who was known to...
Eternal Chase
I have always loved an ancient story. God made the world, and from that very day the sun went running after darkness. And darkness could not understand: it has...