Evening star., 1936-05-25
Benefits of
Meditation
/ Are Many
Encourage Young to
Seek Quiet Re-
treat.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

THE best work is done with tools
l. worn to the hand, with material
that has been seasoned. A certain
ripeness of thought is needed to give
quality and accuracy to behavior and
achievement. In our haste to get the
full flavor of our inspirations and
their concrete forms we take what
ever tool is handy, use whatever
material comes first, and when the
task is hurried to completion, lose
no time In pronouncing it very good.
A bit more seasoning would make our
work more useful and insure it a
longer life.
The trouble begins within our
selves. We are all in such hurry.
An idea springs into our heads, Is
rushed through our neglected minds,
formed into something we fancy. and
on we go. So we make laws that have
to be repealed after doing untold
harm, scrap equipment that cost much
and gave little. undo at great expense
what we have done without meditation
Meditation is crying need of the
day. Take time out to brood over
the ideas that are rising within us,
knead them into something ripper and
more satisfying, before tossing them
OF before breakfast to an astoniShed
and bewildered world-do that and
we would 60 far toward bringing some
sanity and order and comfort to con-
fused and troubled souls. But who,
save some isolated scholar who is
net noticed, meditates upon the truth
of his ways? Say it, shout it, do 1t,
before the other fellow can get in
ahead with his red hot contribution.
fresh from his eager mind.
A little time for cooling OF, for
testing. examining, searching would
bring a great quiet in the noisy strife
that we miscall life. Life goes on
apart from the shouting and the
tumult. Somewhere, in still small
voice, truth is speaking. Somewhere
some one has been nleditating upon
the state of the world and offers the
seasoned fruit of his thinking. All
the rest is waste and will be swept
away with the wreckage when Truth
takes her rightful place. How much
We might be saved did we know
enough to mediate before accepting
fieeting notions as anchored facts.
We need to educate our children so
that they will not make the same head
long mistakes. We should teach them
to go apart to some pleasant place
where their minds might brood over
what their brains have Matched. Set
aside some quiet corner. grace it with
a bit of beauty to inspire the mind,
and give the children an opportunity
to cultivate their, spiritual under
standing. It is that understanding
that makes for truth.
Teach children to wait for the
still, small voice that speaks out of
the silence before they act. Teach
them to submit whatever counsel
they receive to their inner minds and
wait for the seasoned verdict that will
surely follow. Show them that there
Is no need for haste when truth is at
stake. The search Is long, and Time
must do her perfect work before it
can be presented.
Teach the olde children to sit
quietly in the dim church. to go into
the quiet woods, to seek the quiet of
their own rooms and search their own
hearts for the truth that is in them
before telling the world the way it
should 60. This is an old world, and
truth is no stranger to it. In the
silent reaches, it keeps its appointed
path. Somewhere in that silence the
truth dWelS. In stiffness, in r1edita.
ton, it is to be found
(Copyright. 1860