Moral of the Story

The Wise Woman's Stone

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.

"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."

-Author Unknown

[PS : Like it's mentioned above the author of this wonderful short story is unknown, it is not written by me. I found it here and loved it so i shared it after all what good is a such a inspiring thought if not shared?]

And like we are 7 again, the moral of the story is - 

The man in the story returned the precious stone, by doing so he made a choice to be a seeker of truth. We all get oppertunities to learn and grow, from a person or a situation, all we need to do is to be available to it, to make a choice.