Evening star., 1932-09-06

peace within. So long as there
I is conflict in ones own mind
~ there is distress. How is one to
achieve that peace? I think
that the best way is to find the scheme
Of life that best suits the personal need.
The job that gives one man happiness
drives another to the hospital. The
self-control that has to be exerted in
order to carry on from day to day ought
in view. Usually when this proportion
is lost, and this happens when one finds
himself in the wrong place following the
wrong road, all peace departs and life
is one long conflict
Find the job you can do best. Reduce
your needs to the simplest form. Know
that living is not matter Of accumula-
ton of goods so much as it is matter
Of acquiring right attitude. One ac-
Quires inner peace as his wants are met
The hermit reduces his wants to the
most elementary plane and finds relief
in fleeing from life. Normal people face
things as they come and MAINTAIN
themselves on the plane OF usefulness
well within their ability and in accord
ance with their personal tastes ana
abilities. When one finds satisfaction
in his work he Is well on the road TO
inner peace.
With that notion in mind. education
of children takes on a deeper meaning
It is not enough that child be busy
about something. His business must be
the sort that gives him satisfaction for
the time. If he is forced to work
against the grain during his creative
years he cannot acquire inner peace,
and that means he cannot become a
happy, useful, contributing member OF
society.
know that little children must be
taught their tools of learning In the
first 10 years of their lives and often we
| have to lasso them to teach them. II
we work discreetly and af1ectlonateiy
we accomplish the task without narm 10
the children. After that we ought to
he able to turn our attention to helping
them to find and to do the work tnat
will bring them inner peace.
First we ought to asure our own
inner peace. It Is our discomfort, our
fruitless striving for the unimportant
| things. that sets the attitudes OF the
children. So long as we grumble ABOUT
the inconvenience OF earning q nvlne,
50 long as we bemoan the lack OF money
| to b,Iy more and more expensive Things:
so long as we sigh about the injustice OF
the social scheme that makes us SIT pc
| low the mighty and long 10 reverse Iic
situation and become the mighty IN our
turns we shall not know inner peace,
nor shall we deserve It.
| First we shall have to set our own
houses in order and acquire measure
of peace Then we can help the chill
dren to better understanding OF what
they are trying to do. We can honor
work and workers. We can point out
the happiness of personal service. We
can enjoy simple things and accept the
priceless things that only love and In
telligence can supply. If we do a few
of these things and if we truly long for
understanding and wisdom, we shall &C
uuire them and be able to pass them
along to our children.
Why don't we stop little to consider
these things? We rush and we push
and We struggle for the few short pre-
cious years we live in order to sit in a
certain place, when messy stone under
a poisoning apple tree would afford us
a finer view and sweeter content. We
barter our sleep for a few shares OF
stock. We trade friends for strangers
who have no interest in us and we lose
life's flavor because we eat the for
hidden fruit. All this we do only to
lose the precious boon of inner peace.
The children should be saved from our
stupidity, now that We know the way.
| Copyright, 1922