I today got the following story in Spanish – it’s nice, so I google-translated it:
One day a disciple asked his master:
- Teacher, when will be the end of the world?
- Which end of the world? replied the Master
- What do you mean? How many times will the world end?
- Two times, said the master. The first is when my wife dies and the second will be when I die.
The end of the world comes to us when that which we consider our personal world ends, everything else is relative.
Dawn over the Alps, 23 Nov. 2012