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An Attitude of Happiness
Count your blessings and light the lamp of happiness in your heart. Let it fly, let it float. Let go.
Be Strong
Even the strongest tree sways in the face of gusty winds. Being strong doesn't mean you show no emotion.
The Essence of Friendship
Friends are like different flowers in a bouquet, each one has its own beauty, fragrance and color.
A Story of Grace
Divine grace protects your tender heart from adversity like a shell shelters its inhabitant. Nature has a way.
A Word on Love
To love is to make the other person at perfect ease in your presence, so they can be themselves.
The Course of Grief
Grief has a life of its own. Like a river charts its own course, grief too must flow before it can merge into the sea of life.
The Four Shades of Silence
Bliss and tranquility blossom in a silent mind like beautiful lotuses do in a serene pond.
The Price of Freedom
True freedom is a leap from recklessness to responsibility. It's to be mindful of the consequences of our actions.
One Life Many Lives
As series of drops make up a waterfall, tiny moments and experiences create what appears to be a lifetime.
The 84th Problem
Here's a beautiful parable showing the possibility of a life without any problems at all.
The Hall of a Thousand Mirrors
Here's a beautiful story illustrating how we shape our own world and attract a certain type of people.
The River of Life
When you learn to flow with life, it becomes a beautiful and blissful journey.
The Drama Triangle
Love flows without resentment like water from a mountain in the one who learns to loves himself first.
When Care Destroys Love
Obsessive care cripples love like excessive water destroys plants
The Seed of Divinity
The tree laden with fruit always bends down a bit. On the path of divinity, it represents a key virtue.