Parables about happiness are short and understandable. Parables about life with morals - short
One day the padishah wanted to see with his own eyes an apsara (the image of an apsara is the Indian idea of ideal femininity) and a witch. Birbal came to the darbar, and the padishah told him about it. - This is not a difficult matter. Wait a little, he said...
Arithmetic of happiness Parable from Alexander Vyzhenko
Once the Starchik came to Poltava, sat down in Zeleny Gai, not far from the Assumption Cathedral, and began shouting: “I’m selling wisdom; One Wisdom is a penny, for a nickel - two! So a rich man came up to him and said: “I,” he says, “will give you gold if you...
Hey, Minotaur! Parable from Felix Krivin
The Minotaur walked through the labyrinth. There was no exit. - Everything with me is not like with people! - sighed the Minotaur, as usual, exaggerating his misfortunes: his arms, legs, and torso were just like those of people, only his head was like that of a bull, and even that he got from...
Without hope and fear Ancient parable
Once Demonakt was asked a question: - How, in your opinion, can happiness be defined? - Only the free are happy. When they objected to him that there are many free people, he said: “But I consider the one free who does not hope for anything and fears nothing.” - But such...
Ladybug Parable for children
In the middle of the beautiful, bright God's peace there lived a little gray insect. All the other insects were very proud of their bright flowers and did not pay any attention to her, and the Colorado potato beetle even mocked her. The little insect was very sad. ...
Be happy! Parable of unknown origin
A beggar stood by the road and begged for alms. A horseman passing by hit the beggar in the face with a whip. He, looking after the retreating rider, said: “Be happy.” The peasant, who saw what had happened, heard these words and asked: “Are you really so humble?” - ...
Be happy
A rich lady, driving past a poor house, heard cheerful laughter and told the servant: “Go find out what their holiday is.” “This is a woodcutter’s family,” the servant reported. - Today he sold firewood and fed everyone with porridge. So they are happy. “And my husband has things to do...
A compelling argument Christian parable
That’s it,” said the sinner. - I stop sinning and part with the past forever! - Why? - they asked him. - Because I want to forever connect with the future!
View from above Parable from Alexander Bella
The man asked God to show him the way to happiness. God exalted him so high that man saw many roads leading to what he asked about. And so many that I was confused. The man looked at them from above until he sank to the ground. Then he...
God's Will Esoteric parable
Once upon a time, a very pious man asked God every day for temporary things. And when God did not fulfill his desires, he was offended, but prayed again. And suddenly he heard a voice inside himself. - My pious son, all forms of life appeared from one point. All...
Memories of the music of happiness Parable from Alexandra Lopatina
Once upon a time there lived an old husband and wife. In their youth they passionately loved each other. Every day the husband brought gifts to his beloved, sometimes a wild flower, and sometimes a ring, bracelet or necklace. Then he took a harmonica out of his pocket and played merrily, and the young...
Time for happiness Modern parable
One lady was having lunch with her friend. At the next table, a very drunk and therefore excited man was obsessively trying to start a conversation with them. Finally losing patience, the lady asked him to calm down. - Why on earth? - he was perplexed. - I'm talking about...
This is unlikely to help you Parable from Alexander Bella about teacher Amu
The disputants turned to Amu with the question: “What does a person strive for?” The sage agreed to listen to them. Then the first one exclaimed: “I don’t understand what the argument is about!” Clearly, fortunately! “Usually to avoid the worst,” the second objected. - Towards knowledge, - confidently...
The choice is yours Parable from Sergei Shepel
Why are you angry and offended? Isn't it better to calm down and forgive? - asked the Teacher. - Why should I do him a favor and forgive him, he... - the student wanted to justify himself. “Sorry for interrupting you,” said the Teacher. - Let me ask...
Choosing a cross Christian parable
There was one simple-minded villager who lived by the labor of his hands, but earned very little: he barely had enough to feed himself and his family. One day he went to the seashore, sat down on a stone and began to watch as large ships approached the pier with...
Call Parable as told by Osho
One day Happiness was walking through the forest and suddenly fell into a hole, sat in it and cried bitterly.
A man walked past, Happiness heard footsteps and shouted from the pit:
- Human! Kind! Get me out of here!
- What will you give me for this? - the man asks.
- And what do you want? - Happiness asked in response.
- I want a big and beautiful house with a sea view that costs a million dollars...
Happiness gave a man a home, he was delighted and immediately retired to it, completely forgetting about helping Happiness. Happiness sits in a hole, crying even louder. A second man was walking past, Happiness heard steps and shouted to him:
- Nice man! Get me out of here!
- What will you give me for this? - he asks.
- And what do you want?
- I want a lot of beautiful and expensive cars, of a wide variety of brands.
Happiness gave a person everything he asked for. And he was so happy that he immediately rushed off to his home to test his new cars...
Happiness has completely lost hope. Suddenly he hears a third person coming. Happiness called out to him:
- A kind person! Get me out of here, please... The man pulled Happiness out of the hole and moved on. Happiness, crazy with joy, ran after him and asked:
- Buddy, what do you want for helping me?
“I don’t need anything,” the strange man smiled. So, since then, Happiness has been running after that person, never falling behind him...
ANOTHER OPTION, SHORTER:
One day three brothers saw Happiness sitting in a hole. One of the brothers approached the pit and asked Happiness for money. Happiness gave him money, and he left happy. Another brother asked beautiful woman. He immediately received it and ran away with her, beside himself with happiness. The third brother leaned over the pit:
- What do you need? - asked Happiness
- What do you need? - asked the brother.
“Get me out of here,” Happiness asked.
The brother extended his hand, pulled Happiness out of the hole, turned and walked away. And Happiness followed him...
A parable is one of the most ancient types of edifying stories. Instructive allegories allow you to briefly and succinctly give any moral statement, without resorting to direct persuasion. That is why parables about life with morality - short and allegorical - have at all times been a very popular educational tool, touching on a variety of problems of human existence.
The ability to distinguish between good and evil distinguishes a person from an animal. It is not surprising that the folklore of all nations contains many parables on this topic. They tried to give their own definitions of good and evil, explore their interaction and explain the nature of human dualism in the Ancient East, and in Africa, and in Europe, and in both Americas. A large corpus of parables on this topic shows that, despite the difference in cultures and traditions, the idea of these fundamental concepts among different nations general .
Two wolves
Once upon a time, an old Indian revealed to his grandson one life truth:
– There is a struggle in every person, very similar to the struggle of two wolves. One wolf represents evil - envy, jealousy, regret, selfishness, ambition, lies... The other wolf represents good - peace, love, hope, truth, kindness, loyalty...
The little Indian, touched to the depths of his soul by his grandfather’s words, thought for a few moments, and then asked:
– Which wolf wins in the end?
The old Indian smiled faintly and replied:
– The wolf you feed always wins.
Know it and don't do it
The young man came to the sage with a request to accept him as a student.
– Can you lie? - asked the sage.
- Of course not!
- What about stealing?
- No.
- What about killing?
- No…
“Then go and find out all this,” exclaimed the sage, “but once you know, don’t do it!”
Black dot
One day the sage gathered his students and showed them an ordinary piece of paper on which he drew a small black dot. He asked them:
-What do you see?
Everyone answered in unison that it was a black dot. The answer was not correct. The sage said:
– Don’t you see this white sheet of paper - it’s so huge, bigger than this black dot! This is how it is in life - the first thing we see in people is something bad, although there is much more good. And only a few see the “white sheet of paper” right away.
Parables about happiness
Wherever a person is born, whoever he is, whatever he does, in essence, he does one thing - seeks happiness. This inner search continues from birth to death, even if it is not always realized. And on this path a person faces a lot of questions. What is happiness? Is it possible to be happy without having anything? Is it possible to get happiness ready-made or do you need to create it yourself?
The idea of happiness is as individual as DNA or fingerprints. For some people and the whole world is not enough to feel at least satisfied. For others, a little is enough - a ray of sunshine, a friendly smile. It seems that there can be no agreement between people regarding this ethical category. And yet, in different parables about happiness, common ground is found.
A piece of clay
God molded man from clay. He sculpted an earth, a house, animals and birds for man. And he was left with an unused piece of clay.
- What else should you make? - God asked.
“Make me happy,” the man asked.
God did not answer, thought for a moment and put the remaining piece of clay in the man’s palm.
Money can not buy happiness
The student asked the Master:
– How true are the words that money does not buy happiness?
The master replied that they were completely correct.
- It's easy to prove. For money can buy a bed, but not sleep; food - but not appetite; medicines - but not health; servants - but not friends; women - but not love; home - but not home; entertainment - but not joy; teachers - but not the mind. And what is named does not exhaust the list.
Khoja Nasreddin and the traveler
One day Nasreddin met a gloomy man wandering along the road to the city.
- What happened to you? – Khoja Nasreddin asked the traveler.
The man showed him a tattered travel bag and said plaintively:
- Oh, I'm unhappy! Everything I own in the infinitely vast world will barely fill this pitiful, worthless bag!
“Your affairs are bad,” Nasreddin sympathized, snatched the bag from the traveler’s hands and ran away.
And the traveler continued on his way, shedding tears. Meanwhile, Nasreddin ran ahead and placed the bag right in the middle of the road. The traveler saw his bag lying on the way, laughed with joy and cried out:
- Oh, what happiness! And I thought I had lost everything!
“It’s easy to make a person happy by teaching him to appreciate what he has,” thought Khoja Nasreddin, watching the traveler from the bushes.
Wise parables about morality
The words “morality” and “morality” in Russian have different connotations. Morality is rather a social attitude. Morality is internal, personal. However, the basic principles of morality and ethics are largely the same.
Wise parables easily, but not superficially, touch on these basic principles: the attitude of man to man, dignity and baseness, attitude towards the Motherland. Issues of the relationship between man and society are often embodied in parable form.
Bucket of apples
A man bought himself a new house - large, beautiful - and a garden with fruit trees near the house. And nearby, in an old house, there lived an envious neighbor who constantly tried to ruin his mood: either he would throw garbage under the gate, or he would do some other nasty things.
One day a man woke up in good mood, went out onto the porch, and there was a bucket of slop. The man took a bucket, poured out the slop, cleaned the bucket until it shined, collected the largest, ripest and most delicious apples into it and went to his neighbor. The neighbor opens the door in the hope of a scandal, and the man handed him a bucket of apples and said:
- He who is rich in what, shares it!
Low and worthy
One padishah sent the sage three identical bronze figurines and ordered him to convey:
“Let him decide which of the three people whose statues we are sending is worthy, who is so-so and who is low.”
No one could find any difference between the three figurines. But the sage noticed holes in his ears. He took a thin flexible stick and stuck it into the ear of the first figurine. The stick came out through the mouth. The second figurine's wand came out through the other ear. The third figurine has a wand stuck somewhere inside.
“A person who divulges everything he hears is certainly low,” the sage reasoned. - Anyone whose secret goes in one ear and comes out through the other is a so-so person. The truly noble one is the one who keeps all secrets within himself.
This is what the sage decided and made corresponding inscriptions on all the figurines.
Change your voice
The dove saw an owl in the grove and asked:
-Where are you from, owl?
– I lived in the east, and now I’m flying to the west.
So the owl answered and began to hoot and laugh angrily. The dove asked again:
- Why did you leave? native home and fly to foreign lands?
- Because in the east they don’t like me because I have a nasty voice.
“It was in vain that you left your native land,” said the dove. “You don’t need to change the land, but your voice.” In the West, just like in the East, they do not tolerate evil hooting.
About parents
The attitude towards parents is a moral task that was solved long ago by humanity. Biblical legends about Ham, gospel commandments, numerous proverbs, and fairy tales fully reflect people’s ideas about the relationship between fathers and children. And yet, there are so many contradictions between parents and children that to modern man From time to time it is useful to remind about this.
The constant relevance of the topic “Parents and Children” gives rise to more and more new parables. Modern authors, following in the footsteps of their predecessors, find new words and metaphors to again touch on this issue.
Feeder
Once upon a time there lived an old man. His eyes were blinded, his hearing was dull, and his knees trembled. He could hardly hold a spoon in his hands, he would spill soup, and sometimes food would fall out of his mouth.
The son and his wife looked at him with disgust and during meals began to sit the old man in a corner behind the stove, and the food was served to him in an old saucer. One day the old man's hands were shaking so much that he could not hold the saucer of food. It fell to the floor and broke. Then the young daughter-in-law began to scold the old man, and the son made a wooden feeder for his father. Now the old man had to eat from it.
One day, when the parents were sitting at the table, their little son entered the room with a piece of wood in his hands.
- What do you want to do? - asked the father.
“A wooden feeder,” answered the baby. – When I grow up, dad and mom will eat from it.
Eagle and eaglet
An old eagle flew over the abyss. He carried his son on his back. The eaglet was still too small and could not make it this way. Flying over the abyss, the chick said:
- Father! Now you carry me across the abyss on your back, and when I become big and strong, I will carry you.
“No, son,” the old eagle answered sadly. - When you grow up, you will carry your son.
Suspension bridge
On the way between two high-mountain villages there was a deep gorge. The residents of these villages built a suspension bridge over it. People walked on its wooden planks, and two cables served as railings. People were so used to walking across this bridge that they didn’t have to hold on to these railings, and even children fearlessly ran across the gorge on the planks.
But one day the ropes and railings disappeared somewhere. Early in the morning people approached the bridge, but no one could take a single step across it. While there were cables, it was possible not to hold on to them, but without them the bridge turned out to be impregnable.
This is what happens with our parents. While they are alive, it seems to us that we can do without them, but as soon as we lose them, life immediately begins to seem very difficult.
Everyday parables
Everyday parables are a special category of texts. In a person’s life, every moment a situation of choice arises. What role can seemingly insignificant little things, unnoticed little meanness, stupid provocations, absurd doubts play in fate? Proverbs answer this question clearly: huge.
For a parable, nothing is insignificant or unimportant. She firmly remembers that “the flutter of a butterfly’s wing echoes with thunder in distant worlds.” But the parable does not leave a person alone with the inexorable law of retribution. She always leaves the opportunity for the fallen to rise and continue on their way.
All in your hands
In a Chinese village there lived a sage. People came to him from everywhere with their problems and illnesses, and no one left without receiving help. For this they loved and respected him.
Only one person said: “People! Who do you worship? After all, he is a charlatan and a fraudster!” One day he gathered a crowd around him and said:
- Today I will prove to you that I was right. Let's go to your sage, I will catch a butterfly, and when he comes out onto the porch of his house, I will ask: “Guess what I have in my hand?” He will say: “Butterfly,” because anyway, one of you will let it slip. And then I’ll ask: “Is she alive or dead?” If he says that he is alive, I will squeeze his hand, and if he is dead, then I will release the butterfly to freedom. In any case, your sage will be made a fool!
When they came to the house of the sage, and he came out to meet them, the envious man asked his first question:
“Butterfly,” answered the sage.
- Is she alive or dead?
The old man, smiling into his beard, said:
- Everything is in your hands, man.
Bat
A long time ago, a war broke out between animals and birds. The hardest thing was for the old Bat. After all, she was both an animal and a bird at the same time. And therefore she could not decide for herself who it would be more profitable for her to join. But then she decided to cheat. If the birds prevail over the animals, then she will support the birds. Otherwise, she will quickly go over to the animals. So she did.
But when everyone noticed how she was behaving, they immediately suggested that she not run from one to the other, but choose one side once and for all. Then old Bat said:
- No! I'll stay in the middle.
- Fine! - said both sides.
The battle began and the old Bat, caught in the middle of the battle, was crushed and died.
This is why he who tries to sit between two stools will always find himself on the rotten part of the rope that hangs over the jaws of death.
A fall
One student asked his Sufi mentor:
- Teacher, what would you say if you found out about my fall?
- Get up!
- And next time?
- Get up again!
– And how long can this continue – keep falling and rising?
- Fall and rise while you're alive! After all, those who fell and did not rise are dead.
Orthodox parables about life
Also Academician D.S. Likhachev noted that in Rus' the parable as a genre “grew” from the Bible. The Bible itself is littered with parables. It was this form of teaching the people that Solomon and Christ chose. Therefore, it is not surprising that with the advent of Christianity in Rus', the genre of parables took deep roots in our land.
Popular faith has always been far from formalism and “bookish” complexity. Therefore, the best Orthodox preachers constantly turned to allegory, where they generally transformed the key ideas of Christianity into fairytale shape. Sometimes Orthodox parables about life could be concentrated into one phrase-aphorism. In other cases - into a short story.
Humility is a feat
Once a woman came to the Optina hieroschemamonk Anatoly (Zertsalov) and asked him for a blessing for a spiritual feat: to live alone and fast, pray and sleep on bare boards without interference. The elder told her:
– You know, the evil one does not eat, does not drink and does not sleep, but everything lives in the abyss, because he has no humility. Submit in everything to the will of God - that’s your feat; humble yourself before everyone, reproach yourself for everything, bear illness and sorrow with gratitude - this is beyond any feats!
Your cross
One person thought that his life was very difficult. And one day he went to God, told about his misfortunes and asked Him:
– Can I choose a different cross for myself?
God looked at the man with a smile, led him into the storage room where there were crosses, and said:
- Choose.
A man walked around the storehouse for a long time, looking for the smallest and lightest cross, and finally found a small, small, light, light cross, approached God and said:
- Lord, can I take this one?
“It’s possible,” God answered. - This is your own.
About love with morals
Love moves worlds and human souls. It would be strange if the parables ignored the problems of relationships between men and women. And here the authors of the parables raise a great many questions. What is love? Is it possible to define it? Where does it come from and what destroys it? How to find it?
Parables also touch on narrower aspects. Everyday relations between husband and wife - it would seem that what could be more banal? But here too the parable finds food for thought. After all, it’s only in fairy tales that things end with a wedding crown. And the parable knows: this is just the beginning. And keeping love is no less important than finding it.
All or nothing
One man came to the sage and asked: “What is love?” The sage said: “Nothing.”
The man was very surprised and began to tell him that he had read many books that described how love can be different, sad and happy, eternal and fleeting.
Then the sage replied: “That’s it.”
The man again did not understand anything and asked: “How can I understand you? All or nothing?"
The sage smiled and said: “You yourself just answered your own question: nothing or everything. There can be no middle ground!”
Mind and heart
One person argued that the mind on the street of love is blind, and that the main thing in love is the heart. As proof of this, he cited the story of a lover who swam many times across the Tigris River, bravely fighting the current, to see his beloved.
But one day he suddenly noticed a spot on her face. After that, while swimming across the Tigris, he thought: “My beloved is imperfect.” And at that very moment the love that held him on the waves weakened, in the middle of the river his strength left him, and he drowned.
Repair, don't throw away
An elderly couple who had lived together for over 50 years was asked:
- Probably, you have never had a fight in half a century?
“We were arguing,” the husband and wife answered.
– Maybe you never had any need, you had ideal relatives and a full house?
- No, everything is like everyone else.
– But you never wanted to separate?
– There were such thoughts.
– How did you manage to live together for so long?
– Apparently, we were born and raised in a time when it was customary to fix broken things and not throw them away.
Don't demand
The teacher learned that one of his students was persistently seeking someone's love.
“Don’t demand love, so you won’t get it,” said the teacher.
- But why?
- Tell me, what do you do when uninvited guests break into your door, when they knock, scream, demanding to open it, and tear out their hair from the fact that it is not opened for them?
“I lock it tighter.”
– Don’t break into the doors of other people’s hearts, as they will close even more tightly before you. Become a welcome guest and any heart will open to you. Take the example of a flower that does not chase bees, but by giving them nectar, attracts them to itself.
Short parables about insult
The outside world is a harsh environment that constantly pits people against each other, striking sparks. A situation of conflict, humiliation, or insult can unsettle a person for a long time. The parable comes to the rescue here too, playing a psychotherapeutic role.
How to react to an insult? Give vent to anger and respond to the insolent? What to choose – the Old Testament “an eye for an eye” or the Gospel “turn the other cheek”? It is curious that of the entire corpus of parables about insults, the Buddhist ones are the most popular today. The pre-Christian, but not Old Testament, approach seems most acceptable to our contemporaries.
Go your own way
One of the disciples asked Buddha:
– If someone insults or hits me, what should I do?
– If a dry branch falls from a tree and hits you, what will you do? – he asked in response:
- What will i do? “It’s a simple accident, a simple coincidence that I found myself under a tree when a branch fell from it,” said the student.
Then the Buddha remarked:
- So do the same. Someone was mad, angry and hit you. It's like a branch falling from a tree on your head. Don’t let this bother you, go on your way as if nothing happened.
Take it for yourself
One day, several people began to viciously insult Buddha. He listened silently, very calmly. And that's why they felt uneasy. One of these people addressed the Buddha:
– Don’t our words hurt you?!
“It’s up to you to decide whether to insult me or not,” replied the Buddha. – And mine is to accept your insults or not. I refuse to accept them. You can take them for yourself.
Socrates and the insolent
When some impudent person kicked Socrates, he endured it without saying a word. And when someone expressed surprise why Socrates ignored such a blatant insult, the philosopher remarked:
- If a donkey kicked me, would I really bring him to court?
About the meaning of life
Reflections on the meaning and purpose of existence belong to the category of so-called “damned questions”, and no one has a definite answer. However, deep existential fear - “Why am I living if I’m going to die anyway?” - torments every person. And of course, the genre of parable also touches on this issue.
Every nation has parables about the meaning of life. Most often it is defined as follows: the meaning of life is in life itself, in its endless reproduction and development through subsequent generations. The short-term existence of each individual person is considered philosophically. Perhaps the most allegorical and transparent parable in this category was invented by the American Indians.
Stone and bamboo
They say that one day a stone and a bamboo had a heated argument. Each of them wanted a person's life to be similar to his own.
The stone said:
– A person’s life should be the same as mine. Then he will live forever.
Bamboo replied:
- No, no, a person’s life should be like mine. I die, but am immediately born again.
The stone objected:
- No, it’s better to be different. Let better person will be like me. I do not bow to the wind or the rain. Neither water, nor heat, nor cold can harm me. My life is endless. For me there is no pain, no care. This is how a person's life should be.
Bamboo insisted:
- No. A person's life should be like mine. I die, it is true, but I am reborn in my sons. Isn't that right? Look around me - my sons are everywhere. And they too will have their own sons, and all will have smooth and white skin.
The stone was unable to answer this. Bamboo won the argument. This is why human life is like the life of bamboo.
One day Starchik came to Poltava, sat down in Zeleny Gai, not far from the Assumption Cathedral, and began shouting:
I sell wisdom; One Wisdom is a penny, for a nickel - two!
So the rich man came up to him and said:
“I,” he says, “will give you a gold piece if you answer two questions for me.”
I agree,” said Starchik, “sit down next to each other, let’s talk well.”
The rich man sat down next to the Starchik and asked:
Here is my first question: is it proper for a wise man to engage in such a trade?
“Why not,” said Starchik. - This is the only thing I have. And I need money too. Look around: people make money from the wind, but I make money from the thoughts of the heart.
Then here’s my second question for you,” says the rich man. -Can money buy wisdom?
It is possible, if the word is appropriate, if what is said will help a person overcome the problem.
And how much do you earn this way?
This is the third question,” Starchik noted. - But I will answer. A sage, like a sower, always sows seeds of wisdom. But he does not forget that the harvest depends on many natural conditions.
Then give me the answer to one more question, and you will receive two gold pieces from me.
Okay, ask away.
I always have a good harvest, but there is no happiness. Why is that?
And the Starchik said:
Your harvests are your restlessness. Your eyes are open, but they don’t see the sun. The more grain you have, the more rats you have in your barn. Be like me and don’t think about profit or loss. Remember: according to the arithmetic of happiness, one penny is equal to two gold coins, and vice versa: two gold coins are like one penny, no more, no less.
"BE HAPPY"
A rich lady, driving past a poor house, heard cheerful laughter and told the servant:
Go find out what their holiday is.
“This is a woodcutter’s family,” the servant reported. - Today he sold firewood and fed everyone with porridge. So they are happy.
“And things are getting worse for my husband!” - the lady thought sadly.
Soon the lady drove past the same house again and again heard laughter. The sent servant explained:
The lumberjack has a son! He doesn’t have enough food for three children, but he is happy about the fourth.
“And my daughters bring me nothing but problems!” - the lady thought sadly.
When the lady heard laughter for the third time in the small house, she herself knocked on the door and asked the hostess why they were always having fun.
“Everything is fine with us, so we’re having fun,” the woman answered innocently.
Here the rich lady could not stand it and went to the sorcerer. She told him about the woodcutter's family and exclaimed:
It's not fair! My life is pure torment, but this family’s is pure joy.
You have wealth, husband, smart daughters. What else do you want? - the sorcerer was surprised.
Conjure me happiness.
“I can’t conjure something for you that you don’t want to see next to you,” the sorcerer sighed.
"TIME FOR HAPPINESS"
One lady was having lunch with her friend. At the next table, a very drunk and therefore excited man was obsessively trying to start a conversation with them. Finally losing patience, the lady asked him to calm down.
Why on earth? - he was perplexed. - I talk about love in a way that no sober person can say! I'm having fun, I'm trying to communicate with strangers... What's wrong with that?! What's wrong?
Now is not the time... - the lady tried to calm him down.
So, you want to say that special time should be set aside for demonstrating happiness?!
And after this phrase, the drunk was invited to sit at their table.
God molded a man from clay, and he was left with an unused piece.
- What else do you need to make? - asked God.
“Make me happy,” the man asked.
God did not answer anything, and only placed the remaining piece of clay in the man’s palm.
*****
How to find your soulmate
A wise parable about how to find your soulmate
The philosopher tossed the apple in his palm, turned it over, looking at it from different sides, and said thoughtfully:
— People believe that their souls are like apples.
- In terms of? - his student became interested.
“More precisely, halves,” the philosopher corrected himself.
- That's about it. He carefully cut the apple into two parts and placed it on the table.
“They have this belief that there is an ideal match for every person.” It seems that God, before sending souls into the world, cuts them in half, into male and female halves. Like an apple. So these halves wander around, looking for each other. And they find it? How do you imagine this? What is the probability of such a meeting? Do you know how many people there are in the world?
- A lot of.
- That's it. And besides, well, they will find each other, so what next? Do you think they will make a whole apple and live in peace and harmony?
- Well, yes. Isn't that right? — the Student was surprised.
- No not like this. The teacher took half an apple in his hands and raised them to his face.
- Here are two fresh souls descending into the world. What does the world do with human souls? The philosopher took a bite from one half with a crunch.
“The world,” he continued with his mouth full, “is not static.” And cruel. He grinds everything for himself. One way or another. He cuts it off piece by piece, or bites it off, or even grinds it into baby puree. He took a bite of the other half and was silent for a while, chewing.
The student stared at the two stubs and swallowed nervously.
“And so,” the Philosopher solemnly proclaimed, “they meet!” He connected the bitten halves.
- So, are they suitable for each other? HET!!!
“Now look here,” the Teacher interrupted and took a few more apples.
- We cut each one in half, add two halves of different apples at random - and what do we see?
“They don’t fit,” nodded the Student.
- Well, what do we see? Are they forming a couple now?
“Yes,” the student nodded thoughtfully.
“Now they match each other perfectly.”
- Because the world bit them not one by one, but together!
People who love each other become one: they enjoy life together and accept the blows of fate together, learn to understand each other perfectly, support each other and push each other to achieve success.
And over time, some couples even adopt each other’s habits, become similar in character and harmoniously complement each other.
That is, soul mates are not born, but become. And this is painstaking work.
*****
Parable about the best husband
An instructive parable about how one woman asked a wise old man for a divorce from her husband.
One day a woman came to the wise old man and said:
“You entered into a marriage between me and my husband two years ago.” Now separate us. I don't want to live with him anymore.
- What is the reason for your desire to get a divorce? - asked the sage.
The woman explained this:
“Everyone’s husband returns home on time, but my husband is constantly delayed. Because of this, there are scandals at home every day.
The elder, surprised, asks:
- Is this the only reason?
“Yes, I don’t want to live with a person who has such a disadvantage,” the woman answered.
- I will divorce you, but on one condition. Come home now, bake some big delicious bread and bring it to me. But when you bake bread, don’t take anything from the house! Ask your neighbors for salt, water, eggs and flour. And be sure to explain to them the reason for your request,” said the sage.
The woman went home and got down to business.
I went to my neighbor and said:
— Neighbor, lend me a glass of water.
— Have you run out of water? Isn't there a well dug in the yard?
“There is water, but I went to the wise old man to complain about my husband and asked him to divorce us,” the woman explained.
And as soon as she finished, the neighbor sighed:
- Oh, if you only knew what kind of husband I have!
And she began to complain about her husband.
Afterwards, the woman went to another neighbor to ask for salt.
“You’ve run out of salt, are you asking for just one spoon?”
“There is salt, but I complained to the elder about my husband and asked for a divorce,” says that woman, and before she had time to finish, the neighbor exclaimed:
- Oh, if you only knew what kind of husband I have! - and began to complain about her husband.
So, no matter who this woman went to to ask for food, she heard complaints about their husbands from everyone.
Finally, she baked a large delicious bread, brought it to the sage and gave it to him with the words:
- Thank you, taste my work with your family. Just don’t think about divorcing me and my husband.
- Why, what happened, daughter? - asked the sage.
- My husband turns out to be the best! - she answered him.
*****
The king announced that the princess's husband would be the one who would love her all his life.
On the appointed day, hundreds of suitors gathered in the palace. Everyone wanted to prove that they would love the princess forever.
The girl looked at the dressed up young men and thought. Then she called her teacher and talked with him for a long time.
“I will not talk to the suitors today,” the princess announced. - Divide them into groups. Let the first group arrive tomorrow evening. During the day I will study with the teacher.
“Daughter, you’ve already graduated from school,” the queen was surprised.
“It’s never too late to learn,” answered the princess.
The teacher's house stood near the road. When the first groom, a noble knight on horseback, rode past, he saw a beautiful beggar woman with a basket of flowers by the road. Seeing the knight, she asked:
- Buy a bouquet, young man.
“Get out of the way, beggar,” the knight shouted and galloped away.
This is what all the young men did who hurried to the palace that day.
In the evening, the sad princess received the suitors. Having said a few words, she immediately sent them away. The same thing happened on the second day and on the third.
- Daughter, why are you driving everyone away? - the queen asked worriedly.
“They are not able to see beauty, Mom.”
A month has passed. All the suitors of the last group gathered in the palace, only one groom and the princess herself were missing. They appeared together, and the princess announced that she had found her betrothed.
Then she told the queen:
My teacher advised me how to choose a husband. He said: “The love of the one who loves you in rags will live until the end of his life.”
Every day I changed into old clothes and waited for the grooms near the road. Only this young man stopped and bought a bouquet from me. He told me I was beautiful.
*****
Independent woman
Once upon a time there was Absolutely Independent Woman. About a year ago she became such - absolutely independent, which she was terribly proud of.
She woke up when the alarm went off and never lay in bed. She didn’t care whether she drank coffee or tea: it took her a long time to overcome her caffeine addiction. And she overcame it, at the same time banishing everything sweet, high-calorie and unhealthy from her diet. So she drank water in the morning and ate unsweetened and unsalted oatmeal.
She broke up with her friends because she didn't want to depend on them.
She was completely indifferent to shopping - and no one would dare to blame her for being able to lose her head because of a shiny rag. What about shopping? She did not lose her head over men either. Many months have passed since she drove away her beloved (and she almost became dependent on him).
In short, Absolutely Independent Woman I felt that a little more - and she would become Ideal Woman.
On Saturday morning, a rustling sound was heard outside her door. She opened it. Staggering from fatigue, Ko stood on the threshold
