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Friday, 7 February 2014

Never Underestimate the Value of a Person

During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one: 'What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?'

Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50's, but how would I know her name?

I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade.

'Absolutely,' said the professor. 'In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say 'hello.' I've never forgotten that lesson.

I also learned her name was Dorothy.

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Its not what you do that counts, but how you do it, that will make all the difference.

One day, two flower merchants set up shop next to one another. They opened for business on the same day, carried the same lovely selection of aromatic flowers, and maintained similar prices for their marvelous plants. Both merchants took great care raising their plants and both were kind and courteous to their customers. In fact, their stores appeared to be equal in every way.

At first, the merchants received equal traffic through their shops, but -- as time went on -- the first merchant's shop became more popular among the people. The second merchant noticed this and became concerned. One particularly slow day, he decided to look into the matter.

As he stepped out his door to visit his neighbor, he passed one of his regular customers leaving the first merchant's shop carrying their weekly purchase of flowers. In disbelief, the second merchant hurried into the next store. Indeed, the store was teeming with customers.

The second merchant noticed his competitor wasn't taking the money himself, as he always did. The first merchant was out among the aisles, talking with his customers. To his amazement, the second merchant watched as the first would chat at great length with the customers and even would occasionally talk to the flowers themselves! The second merchant prided himself on being a serious store owner and could not understand this leisurely approach to running a shop. Yet this behavior seemed to be working for the first merchant, as his thriving store would attest.

When the second merchant could stand it no longer, he approached the first and politely asked to interrupt the conversation. The first merchant smiled, handed his customers to one of his clerks, and turned his attention to his exasperated neighbor. The second merchant asked, "Brother, I am your humble student. Our stores are nearly the same in all ways, yet your results are doubling while mine are halving. I do not understand."

"Brother," the first merchant said, "We are the same in most ways, this is true. The difference lies in what we see with our hearts. You see your store as a store, your plants as plants, and your customers as customers. I see my store as a beloved home and my cherished friends are my customers, clerks and plants, all present to be adored. In that way, we are very, very different."

http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com

Its not what you do that counts, but how you do it, that will make all the difference.

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Thursday, 6 February 2014

Dont forget the Follow-up

A philosopher, having made an appointment to dispute with Mulla Nasrudin, called and found him away from home. Infuriated, he picked up a piece of chalk and wrote “Stupid Oaf” on Nasrudin’s gate.

As soon as he got home and saw this, the Mulla rushed to the philosopher’s house. “I had forgotten,” he said, “that you were to call. And I apologize for having not been at home. Of course, I remembered the appointment as soon as I saw that you had left your name on my door.”

http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/2010/12/wisdom-story-41/#sthash.rSRPDFec.dpuf

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The Question of - Does God Exist?

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation and talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: “I don’t believe that God exists.”

“Why do you say that?” asked the customer.
“Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.”

The customer thought for a moment, but didn’t respond because he didn’t want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: “You know what? Barbers do not exist.”

“How can you say that?” asked the surprised barber. “I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!”
“No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don’t exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.
“Ah, but barbers do exist! That’s what happens when people do not come to me.”
“Exactly!” affirmed the customer. “That’s the point! God, too, does exist! Because people do not look to God for help is why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.”

- See more at: http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/2011/01/wisdom-story-45/#sthash.oRUgJJZo.dpuf

It’s fine not to agree with the story, but I hope you are happy that you were exposed to it.

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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

You are even poorer than I am!

An old beggar passed through an old village. He knocked on the door of a big beautiful house, with a tall barn and a large iron padlock on the gate. In this house lived a man, known in the village for his miserliness: he never helped people, even though he was very rich.

“Please give me some meat or milk?” – asked the beggar.

The miser replied roughly: “No, I can’t! Go away!”

“Maybe you can give me some wheat or beans?” – kept asking the beggar, forced by hunger to humiliate himself.

“I don’t have anything!” – said the miser.

“Then give me a piece of bread, and I will be grateful.” – said the beggar.

“Go away, I don’t have bread!” – was the miser’s reply.

“At least give me some water? I’m very thirsty!”

“I don’t have water.” – screamed the miser.

Then said the beggar: “Oh, my son, why are you sitting here then? Stand up and start begging food from the good people. You are even poorer than I am!”

http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/2013/08/wisdom-story-161/#sthash.wBLpCYSl.dpuf

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