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.... "Young Arnold has been a heck of a long time fetching your money." The other said, "Just like him. He is absolutely unreliable and terribly slow." A voice from the doorway suddenly said, "Damn the pair of you! Just for that I won't go!" Don't be that lazy, and don't go on postponing. Question 7 WHENEVER I AM NEAR YOU L FEEL TENSE, AND I APPARENTLY SEE THREE REASONS FOR...
...; Mulla Nasrudin stood in an auction room all afternoon waiting for lot 455 which was a South American parrot in a chromium cage. Finally his chance came and the parrot was put up for sale. The Mulla bought it, but it cost him far more money then he had expected to spend on it. Still, his wife badly wanted one just like it. As the assistant came down to him to get his name and address he said, "You...
... archery. He will unnecessarily waste one hundred rupees, and he has nothing in his pocket - we will have to give the money! This is a strange teaching; on our account he is playing the game...." And a great crowd gathered, because they wondered what Nasruddin was up to. He said, "Silence! My beloved disciples, watch what happens. Be careful!" And he shot the arrow. It passed the bull's...
... money and beat it." "Shut up, and mind your own business," said a little old lady from the back. "The big fellow knows what he is doing." Language is a very fragile instrument, but it works as far as ordinary life is concerned. It is utilitarian, but the moment you start moving towards the non-utilitarian existence, language starts failing you. For example, in poetry language...
... money, power, prestige, et cetera - all become concentrated on a single desire, the desire for enlightenment. It imprisons more than any other desire because aU other desires are divided: there are many millions of desires, and your energy is fragmented. But the desire for enlightenment, your whole energy pours into it. It is the thickest and the strongest chain that keeps you imprisoned, and it is...
... fridge? How to eat more? His whole imagination becomes focused on food, he dreams of food. A famous Sufi story says: Three persons were travelling. They purchased a Sufi sweet, halvah. But they had not enough money and the halvah was very costly. It was not enough for three, so there was great debate - who should eat it? They decided 'We should do one thing: we all should sleep, and in the morning...
... animal. "No, sir!" said Morrissey. "I have had him since he was a pup." "I'll make it a hundred dollars!" said the bartender. Morrissey shook his head. When the offer went to five hundred dollars the ventriloquist grabbed the money and headed for the door. "Alright," he added, "take good care of him." And with a last look at the dog, "Farewell, old...
... whole universe nobody has gone insane. You go on working even though there is no need to work - keep busy, without any business, otherwise somebody will point out to you, "What are you doing?" And you don't have the courage to say, "I am just being." People will laugh and they will suggest, "Do something, just being will not help. Get a job! Earn money." But a fish will...
... are borrowing blindness. It is not yours. Even darkness of one's own;s good. One's own errors are better than other people's virtues, remember this - because the mind is always tempted to imitate, to borrow. But that which is significant cannot be borrowed. No, you cannot enter the kingdom of God with borrowed money; there is no way. You cannot bribe the guards because there are no guards and you...
... thing is falling apart!" Milton Trueheart is driving along in his Rolls Royce when he sees his old school friend, Etta Apple. He pulls over, lowers the electric window and says, "Hi, Etta! How are you?" "Wow!" says Etta, "is that you, Milton? And in a Rolls Royce? How did you make so much money?" "I am a fortune teller," replies Milton. "I can see the...
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