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..and not respond to what we assume the other said...
The village drunkard staggered up Io the parish priest, newspaper in hand, and
greeted him politely. The priest, annoyed, ignored the greeting because the man
was slightly inebriated.
He had come with a purpose, however, “Excuse me, Father,” he said, “Could you tell
me what causes arthritis?” The priest ignored that too.
But when the man repeated the question the priest turned on him impatiently and
cried, “Drinking causes arthritis, that’s
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When Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States, he saw dozens of people
each day. Most had complaints of one kind or another.
One day a visiting Governor told the President that he did not understand how he
was able to meet so many people in the space of a few hours.
“Why, you are finished with all your visitors by dinner time,” said the Governor,
“while I am often in my office till midnight.”
“Yes,” said Coolidge. “That’s because you talk.”
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It is just as astonishing to see the use they make of their imagination..,..
“If you ever marry or take a mistress after I am gone I shall return to haunt
you,” said a dying woman to her husband.
So when he fell in love again some months after his wife’s death he was horrified,
but not surprised, to see her ghost walk into the house that night and accuse him
bitterly of infidelity.
This went on night after night till he could take it no more and went to consult a
Zen Master who said, “What make
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HUMAN NATURE
Human beings react, not to reality, but to ideas in their heads...
A group of tourists, stranded somewhere in the countryside, were given old rations
to eat. Before eating the food they tested it by throwing some of it to a dog who
seemed to enjoy it and suffered no after effects.
The following day they learnt that the dog had died. Everyone was panic-stricken.
Many began to vomit and complained of fever and dysentery. A doctor was called in
to treat the victims for food poisonin
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Pestilence was on its way to Damascus and sped by a chief’s caravan in the desert.
“Where are you speeding to?” asked the chief.
“To Damascus. I mean to take a thousand lives.”
On its way back from Damascus, Pestilence passed by the caravan again. The chief
said, “It was 50,000 lives that you took, not a 1,000.”
“No,” said the Pestilence. “I took a thousand. It was Fear that took the rest.”
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When Buddha first embarked upon his spiritual quest he practised many austerities.
One day two musicians happened to pass by the tree under which he was sitting in
meditation. One was saying to the other, “Do not tighten the strings of your sitar
too much or they will snap. Do not keep them too loose either or they will produce
no music. Keep to the middle path.”
Those words hit Buddha with such force that they revolutionized his whole approach
to spirituality. He was convinced they had been sai
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A man and his wife went to visit friends in another part of the country and were
taken to a racecourse. Fascinated by the sight of horses chasing one another round
a track, the two of them kept betting all evening till they had no more than two
dollars left.
The following day the man prevailed upon his wife to let him go to the course
alone. There was a horse with a fifty-to-one odds on it in the first race. He bet
on the horse and it won. He put all the money he won on another long shot in the
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