Does Your Home Feel Too Small? – Nasreddin Hodja: The Chickens, the Goat and the Donkey
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"This house is too small for us." "The neighbors moved, and we're still here." A house is rarely narrow; what's narrow is the hearts inside. We tell a tale of Nasreddin Hodja: a villager living with eight people in a single room asks the Hodja for advice. First the Hodja says, "Take the chickens inside." Then the goat, then the donkey. The next day the villager comes back with a beaming face: "It's as if we moved into a palace!" We talk about the worth of what we have and how gratitude makes a home wide.Chapters:00:00 "This house is too small for us."00:13 A tale of Nasreddin Hodja00:24 Our eyes are always on others00:52 What I learned in a hospital corridor01:19 Nasreddin Hodja tells: The house that felt too small01:41 "Take the chickens inside."02:06 "Do you have a donkey? Let it in too."02:22 A night in a single room02:35 "Now take them all out."02:47 "As if we moved into a palace!"03:00 A changed view03:28 Seeing without bringing in the goat03:47 Quran: If you are grateful, I will increase you04:01 Hadith: As if the whole world were given to him04:16 Yunus Emre: Goods are false, land is false04:30 This week's task: The gratitude table04:51 Gratitude widens a homeSources in this episode:• Tale of Nasreddin Hodja: The villager whose house felt too small (the chickens, the goat and the donkey).• Quran, Surah Ibrahim, verse 7.• Hadith (Ubaydullah ibn Mihsan al-Ansari, Tirmidhi): "Whoever among you wakes up safe in his home, healthy in body, and has food for that day, it is as if the whole world were given to him."• Yunus Emre: "Goods are false, land is false."💬 If you had to say at dinner tonight what you're grateful for, what would it be? Tell us in the comments; no one is judged here.ℹ️ This episode is for general information and spiritual reflection; it does not replace educational or psychological counseling. Voice AI-generated. The narrator's memories are part of the storytelling.May God keep you.
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