Stones on The Path

There is no way to avoid the stones on your path. The biggest question is if you have the methods to carry them away and clear your path. Therefore do not provide a fish for your friends. Show your friend how to catch a fish instead. You will not feed them for a day but you will feed them for their lifetime.

In a short but significant way this daily light shows you that you should not remove the stones from the path of your friends, brothers or sisters. You should teach them how to remove their stones from their own path by themselves. That is the most valuable thing in life that you can do to others. This is what friendship is all about. You do not need your friends that much when everything is fine, the value of real friends can be found in hard times when they visit you in your darkest minute. I learned this lesson and others learned this lesson as well.

So if you want to find a friend then help your friend in his darkest minute. The seed you plant that way might show fruits for a lifetime. The stones that once blocked your way can become your most valuable challenges because a friendship as deep as the ocean resulted from your desperate sorrows.

Provide your friend a fish and feed him for a day, show him how to catch fish and you feed him for a lifetime. May the wisdom show you how to deepen friendship.