Tony’s Favorite Stories: A Double-Sided Destiny

From The Song of the Bird The Japanese general Nobunaga decided to attack even...

Tony’s Favorite Stories: Making Friends with the Dragon

From The Prayer of a Frog A man went to see a psychiatrist for...

We’ve  Been Drugged

Take a little child, six months old, and inject heroin, or any other drug,...

Resurrection

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in...

Cultivating Silence – Step 3

You were given two ways in the previous posts of attaining silence.  The first...

A Farmyard Tale

A Guru’s Tale

A disciple told his guru that he was going to a far place to...

A Hasidic’s Tale

The Jews of a small town in Russia were eagerly awaiting the arrival of...

A Sufi’s Tale

The sufi Bayazid said this about himself: I was a revolutionary when I was...

A Worshiper’s Tale

There was once a woman who was religious and devout and filled with love...

A Great Paradox

from Rediscovering Life by Anthony De Mello The Japanese have a powerful tale about...