Here are some enlightening short stories filled with valuable lessons to refresh your soul, transform your fear into hope and trust, fill your mind and heart with positivity and inspire you to create something beautiful out of your life.
Once a little girl was sitting in kitchen watching her mother preparing fish for lunch. She saw that her mother took the fish and cut it’s head and tail before placing it into a baking pan. Little girl was curious to see this. She questioned her mother, “Ma, why did you cut the head and…
Once in a village at a farmer’s house lived a mouse. It caused a lot of trouble for farmer’s wife. One day mouse saw that farmer’s wife was opening a package. Mouse went near to see if it was of food. But it was devastated to found that it was a mousetrap. Scared mouse retreated…
Once a person wanted to seek for the truth of life. So in search of truth he went from place to place. At one place someone advised him to go a cave and look there. Man went to the cave where he met a sage. Sage told him about a village and said, “On crossroad…
Once in a village lived three friends who were not able to earn much money so one day they decided to go to city together to earn money. On decided day all three friends came prepared for the journey to city. After walking for two days on their way to city while walking through a…
Once in a city lived a very successful businessman. His only son who was still a young boy was lazy and fun loving. His son used to spend money with free hands and never even did any help in any work at home. Businessman wanted his son to learn about value of labor. So one…
Story 1: Card board Sign..!! Once a young man was passing by a street where he saw an old man sitting on road side begging for money. That old man was sitting there with an empty bowl in kept in front of him and a card board sign was kept beside that empty bowl. On…
Once a young man was very unhappy with his life. He felt depressed and terrible all the time. He got to know about a zen master in near by town. One day he decided to visit master and ask for solution. Young man went to him and said, “I have so many problems in life…
Once in a village there was an old man who was didn’t like his young neighbor. So he spread rumors saying, “My neighbor is a thief..” One day a theft happened in same neighborhood and because of rumor everyone doubted that young man. As a result he was arrested. Some days later after investigation young man…
Once there was an poor old man used to live in a village. He was poor yet even king’s were jealous of him because of a beautiful white horse he owned. He was offered fabulous prices and money to sell that horse but old man would refuse saying, “This is not just horse to me,…
Lao Tzu spent years meditating to understand essence of life. In reign of Zhao he realized that war would break out and will destroy place where he lived. So he made simplest possible choice and decided to move to another place. He took few of his belongings and set off. On his way to leaving,…