One day, a woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said,"I don't think I know you , but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.""Is the man of the house at home?"they asked. "No," she said. "He's out." "Then we cannot come in." they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go to tell them I am home and invite them in.""We can not go into a house together." they replied. "Why is that?" she wanted to know. One of the old men explained:" His name is Wealth,"he said, pointing to one of his friends, and then pointed to another one. "He is success, and I am love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss whth your husband which one of us you wanna be in your home."
The woman went in and told her husband what the old man had said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!" he said , "Since that is the case, let us invite 'Wealth' and let him come and fill our home with wealth!" His wife disagreed. "My dear. why don't we invite 'success'? " Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house . She jumped in with her own suggestion:"Would it not be better to invite 'Love'? our home will then be filled with love! "
"Let us take our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife . "Go out and invite 'love' to be our guest." The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Who is 'love'? please come in and be our guest." "Love" got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. To her surprise, the lady asked Wealth and success:"I only invited 'love'. Why are you coming in?"
The old men replied together ,"if you had invited 'Wealth' or 'success' the other two of us would stayed out , but since you invited 'Love' , wherever he goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!.