Recently i happened to read some stories of Leo tolstoy. An extract from those stories....
What men live by...
God sent an angel to the world to learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man,and What men live by. Here is what the angel learnt at the end of the story...
"I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves but by love."
"It is not given to any man to know whether, when eveningcomes, he will need boots for his body or slippers for his corpse."
"All men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but becauselove exists in man."
"I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, andtherefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs forhimself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals toeach of them what is necessary for all."
"I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live bycare for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live.He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love."
Three Questions
It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the righttime to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake.
And the answer king got at the end of the story is....
There is only one time that is important--Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time whenwe have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are,for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any oneelse: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!"
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