Use your mind to see things where they are rather than where they are not, even if they are in the dark. Go inside.
One evening, people saw Rabia for some reason jump out into the street from her hut. They gathered around her - poor old woman! - and asked:
- What happened? What are you looking for?
Without raising her head, she said:
- I lost my needle.
Everyone rushed to look for her. Soon someone thought to ask:
- Rabia, the street is big, night has fallen, it will soon become completely dark, the needle is so small. Can you pinpoint exactly where it fell?
Rabia said:
— A needle fell in the house.
-You must be crazy? If a needle fell in the house, what are you doing here?
- Because it’s brighter here, but in the house it’s completely dark.
“Even if the light is here, how will you find the needle if you didn’t lose it here?” It would be better to bring light into the house, and there you can find a needle!
Rabia laughed and said:
-You are so attentive to detail. When will you start using your mind in your personal life? I see that all your aspirations are directed outward, I know this for sure, now I am convinced from experience that what you strive for is lost inside. Use your mind! Why do you strive for happiness in the outside world? Did you lose it there?
They stood dumbfounded, and Rabia disappeared into her house.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru