Once, during the course of his travels, Guru Nanak arrived at a village where the people were a quarrelsome lot.
He blessed them and asked them to prosper and live in that village forever. In the next village, where the people
were peace-loving, Guru Nanak blessed them too but asked them to abandon the village and disperse. Mardana, his close
disciple, puzzled by the guru's strange blessings, asked him why he blessed the first village with prosperity though
its people were unworthy of it, and asked the good people of the second village to disperse. Guru Nanak smiled and
answered: "The quarrelsome will only spread unrest and friction wherever they go. So I asked them to remain where they
were. But it is better for the peace-loving to disperse and take their good qualities with them so that all those who
know them can learn the art of peaceful coexistence."
11/27
was Nanak's birthday
Clever Nanak
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ~ Kahlil Gigran