The celebrated potter, Bernard Palissy, wanted to recover the lost secret of beautiful old glazed china enamelled in rich colours. For months and years on end, he untiringly pursued his experiments. His attempts to find the glaze remained fruitless for a long time. He devoted all he had to his search; and for days and
Continue Reading...Once upon a time, in a small town there lived a man who had two daughters. When they grew up, one was married to a farmer and the other to a brick maker. After a few years, the father wanted to see his daughters again. First he went to the farmer’s village. The girl was
Continue Reading...A man came to the Prophet Mohammed and showed him a nest full of young birds wrapped up in a piece of carpet. ” I found these birds, my Lord,” he said, “as I came through the wood. Hearing the chirps of the nestlings, I looked into a tree and found this nest.” ” Put
Continue Reading...The heaven and hell are both created here by our actions. There is no hell except our selfishness. There no heaven than our own selfless love. Once a group of people wanted to know what makes for hell and what makes heaven? Where all suffer, it is called hell and where all enjoy it is
Continue Reading...A young man wandering about a certain town came upon an oil mill and was very much astonished to see that, instead of a buffalo being attached to the grinding stone, a man was harnessed to it and was going round and round. He asked the man, ” My good man, how long can you
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