We have become very skillful in dealing with our daily life; skillful, in the sense of being clever in applying a great deal of knowledge which we have acquired through education and experience. We act skillfully either in a factory or in a business and so on. That skill becomes, through [...]

We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mind-set of scarcity. Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don’t mean a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It [...]

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero [...]

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker [...]

One day a farmer’s donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal brayed piteously as the farmer looked down and tried to figure out how to get his donkey out of the well. He couldn’t think of any way to do it. As much as he loved the old donkey, he realized that the animal [...]

A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
Curious, he yells: “Who are you?” He receives the answer: “Who are you?” Angered at the response, he screams: “Coward!” He receives the answer: [...]

Once upon time there was a poor peasant in Russia. He was very contended whatever he had. He was managing his family’s affairs with whatever he was earning. But his elder brother was richer than him. One day, as his mind wandered, he thought that his brother was getting richer and richer, day after [...]

There lived a woodcutter who was very poor. He had a wife and three little children. He used to cut wood the whole day and still he could not arrange the food of two times for the family. He was very tired of his poverty stricken situation.
One day he was bringing the wood load from [...]

Long time ago there lived a King. He had three beautiful, intelligent and well-behaved daughters to whom he loved very much. When they came to marriageable age, the king called all of them and asked them – “Whose luck gives you food?” The eldest daughter said – “Dear father, I get food of your luck.” [...]