This is a sufi story I want to share
Somewhere in middle east, there’s a person name Maleq.
His life was filled with sorrow and problems.
His forehead was fulled with wrinkle, because he always troubled with his problems.
One day, his neighbour tell him to meet this sufi somewhere in suburbs.
So he went there to meet this “guru”.
When he finnally met him, the guru asked him what makes Maleq came to him.
Maleq said ” my life is fulled with problems, i had problems, its about… blah blah blah… I couldnt sleep, eat, etc.”
The guru stayed calm and peace, and then he tell Maleq to came back the next day with a handfull of salt.
The next day Maleq came and he bring a handfull of salt: “Guru… what the salt is for? Is the salt gonna reduce my suffering? My problems?”, he asked.
The guru stayed calm, he went to the kitchen and bring back a cup of glass full of water: “Put the salt into the water!”
Then he strirred it gently.
Maleq stayed confused…”what the hell…?”, he thought.
“Drink it!..”, the guru said to Maleq.
With a huge amount of doubt, Maleq drink the salty water.
It was salty allright… Maleq spit the water out allover.
“It was really salty… guru…??? what do you mean?”
Then the guru ask Maleq to came back again the next day with a handfull of salt again.
The next day, when Maleq came, the guru take him to a lake near the guru’s house.
On the side of the lake, he asked Maleq to pour the salt into the lake.
“Now, drink the lake water… please, Maleq, is it salty?” the guru said
“No..”
Now, thats the secret of life.
Expand your heart as wide as a lake, as an ocean even…
So nothing, not a single problem will make a great impact on you…
Because if you keep ur heart as narrow as a cup of water, just a pint of salt will makes it salty and bitter, but if you have your heart as wide as the ocean, pint of salt wont do you harm.
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Thats it…
Sometimes a change of simple perspective will do a great change in someones lifes.
Maleq problems still occured, but nothing can harm him again now.