The happy spontaneity of the...
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The happy spontaneity of the child may eventually become the sour misery of the adult. Or we may become so convinced of the rightness of our beliefs that we are no longer open to new insights. What is there in our lifestyle or belief system that contributes to this closed-mindedness? Do we become seduced by the illusion that the more we acquire the happier we will be?
By and large, we have bought this illusion and thus the television commercials portray a housewife who is overcome with joy when she discovers a device which will give her up to one thousand hygienic flushes in the commode. Or there is the couple in the supermarket aisle who discover a new breakfast cereal, and suddenly they are suffused with a heavenly light and serenaded by heavenly music. It is a scene that would be approximated only by Saint Paul's conversion on the Damascus Road.
A person had lived for a number of years going nowhere and was weary from all of the dead end streets and shattered dreams. In a complete state of disillusionment, somehow she found God and finally inner peace. She described it thus: "I felt like I had swallowed sunshine!"
-- Meddock
By and large, we have bought this illusion and thus the television commercials portray a housewife who is overcome with joy when she discovers a device which will give her up to one thousand hygienic flushes in the commode. Or there is the couple in the supermarket aisle who discover a new breakfast cereal, and suddenly they are suffused with a heavenly light and serenaded by heavenly music. It is a scene that would be approximated only by Saint Paul's conversion on the Damascus Road.
A person had lived for a number of years going nowhere and was weary from all of the dead end streets and shattered dreams. In a complete state of disillusionment, somehow she found God and finally inner peace. She described it thus: "I felt like I had swallowed sunshine!"
-- Meddock
