Stories containing wisdom,

have not been written to lecture, but to wake people up. Between the lines, in their spirit and atmosphere is a hidden insight, an insight which cannot really be communicated through language. While listening and reading, sometimes, almost unexpectedly, you come across a “lesson without words” and for a moment are roused from sleep.

Wisdom doesn’t teach, wisdom breaks through the layer of beliefs, convictions, opinions and established thought patterns, it makes people sensitive to a reality that cannot be told with words. Our own life is a story, not a philosophy, not theoretical. Stories and parables very often mirror situations in our own lives and they allow us to taste the wisdom, which, often without recognising it, is told through our own lives. Maybe that is the hidden power of stories and parables.

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Short story

The master often used parables and stories in his teachings. One of his pupils was once asked by somebody where his teacher got all those stories from. ‘From God,’ he replied. ‘When God makes you into a doctor, He sends you patients; when He makes you into a teacher, He sends you pupils; when He makes you into a master, He gives you stories.’