Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30

time.
success is the price of it. There
lis no success for free. One of the
wondous aspects of these lives
Iof ours, a somewhat mystical
aspect. is our constitutional in
ability to enjoy what we have not
learned.
Psychiatrists someday should
explore the human personality
for a subtle little balance scale
which I'm sure exists there. and
if they find it and closely
Examines it, believe they will
note that joy is written upon the
poise and effort upon the coun-
iterpoise. The JOY of success. 1T
seems must be counterbalanced
10y the effort to achieve it--and
that's the mystical little aspect
of human character which exists
in all Of us.
Satisfaction Essential
A fourth essential ingredient,
without which success is not
success, is satisfaction. One
mans meat is. of course, an
other mans poison. and 30 salts
faction to one man may stem
from the amassing Of q fortune
while to another man it may
came from the writing Of a
poem. But certainly neither
man can claim success at all If
there is no satisfaction in either
the fortune or the poem.
Success must be enjoyed. It
may be won with tears but 1t
must be crowned with laughter.
Otherwise it may be worth
while, it may be good or even
great, but for the individual
without the inner laughter.
which is known by another
name as satisfaction, there can
hardly be success.
This has become one of the
strange anomalies of our time:
that so many men have all the
Ioutward trappings of success
without the essential inner
ltrappings of it. They don't feel
success. Instead of warmth in
side there is barrenness.
1--WE worked and shaved and
knocked myself out-for what?"
has become the refrain of the
Imid-century.
The satisfaction Of success
need not be identif1able by any,
one else or to anyone else so
long as the person himself
knows 1t is there. A school,
teacher working on q meager
salary might not be regarded
as very successful by the COM
munity at large, but If in his
own heart there is good feel
ing, a conviction that he is do
ing well at work he loves, then
an essential ingredient of sue
cess Is his whether anyone
knows 1t or not.
A pastor may feel the inner
satisfaction Of success if in his
quiet rounds he brings o touch
of God to fellow beings; so may
a manufacturer If he feels his
product is the best of its kind,
a source Of pride to him; so may
a professional baseball player If
he loves the game; so may a
housewife If her daily chores are
Ipurposeful and creative, not just
lirksome.
Spirituality
A final basic element Of sue
cess is spirituality. 1t is hard
to imagine anyone feeling sue
cessful without also feeling re-
lated somehow to the greater
purposes Of life and to the
Author Of those purposes.
Whether one is a successful
hobo or a successful banker he
must, If he is to sense the full
bouquet of success. have a con-
viction, however subtle, that he
is in tune with God. He must
sense somehow the pervasive
currents of Gods existence and
recognize his own existence in
those currents, too.
! Again. this is personal. The
spirituality of the successful
hobo and the spirituality of the
successful banker hardly could
be sounded in the same octave,
yet, though far apart in the
scale, they form a harmony. 1t
is not the disparity of outlook
or vocation which counts but
rather the fact that both are
in tune with life and its Maker.
Success is no strait jacket. 1t
is no mold into which all must
be poured. 1t is no rigid stamp.
1t is as individual as our finger
prints or the look in our eyes.
All we need is the courage to be
ourselves.
From the book: SUCCESS IS WITHIN
YOU; Copyright 1855 BY Howard Whit
man; Distributed by Doubleday SYM
dicateD
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