There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest in perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The King chose the second picture. Do you know why?
'Because' explained the King, 'peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.'
I experienced it
While reading it only i was in mid of noise. People were playing songs, talking aloud which often use to distrub me but when i was reading it i was so involved that those noise could not pass my peaceful mind and as i completed the reading i was in my own world forgetting my surrouding and i feel the peace which i read few moments back....
Its one of the favourite story and i cant forget it lifelong....;)
These peolpe write stuff in so straightforward language that for a moment life seems simple. Is it? Or am I a person who has not kept it simple?
Life ..