The Monkeys Go Fasting
A group of monkeys decide to go on a fast one day. “Before we begin, I think we should keep the food with which we’ll break the fast ready,” counselled the…
A group of monkeys decide to go on a fast one day. “Before we begin, I think we should keep the food with which we’ll break the fast ready,” counselled the…
The next time you are tempted to say something hurtful to someone just because you’re angry, you might want to stop and remember this story: it’s a keeper. There once…
In Japanese, the word Kintsugi means “golden rejoining,” a 15th-century oriental master craft dedicated to the restoration of fine ceramic pottery. The essence of Kintsugi is the practice of focusing…
A farmer stopped by the local mechanics shop to have his truck fixed. They couldn’t do it while he waited, so he said he didn’t live far and would just…
A very poor man lived with his wife whose hair was very long. One day the wife asked her husband to buy her a comb for her long hair so…
Conscious of the need to move with the times, Satan decided to sell off a large part of his stock of temptations. He placed an advertisement in the newspaper and…
The authorities were leading a priest, a drunkard and an engineer to the guillotine. They asked the priest if he wanted to face up or down when he meets his…
The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it’s the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy of…
During a robbery in Guangzhou, China, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: “Don’t move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you.” Everyone in…









