A famous novelist has said,
A man can stand anything so long as he can stand himself.
He can live without home, without food, without money without friends.
So long as he can listen in peace to his own thoughts.
Because this statement is so true,
It is vital that a person learn to live with
Himself in peace happiness and satisfaction.
One inescapable fact of life is
This: You have to live with what you are.
Whether we like it or not there is no alternative.
Hour by hour day by day, year by year we must live with ourselves.
When one of our daughter was about six years old,
I was awaken one morning by her voice in the next room.
She has carry on an exuberant conversation.
And for a moment, emerging from haziness of sleep,
I thought she must have company but it was only her voice.
Going into her room, I said,
Margaret this is the strange time to be
Talking to yourself, it is 6:00 in the morning.
Besides it seems clear the laugh of your own remarks.
Oh Daddy, she replied with an air which children used to keep parents
In their proper place,
You don't understand I have an aweful good time with myself.
I often reflected upon that remark,
Children often seem to know the art of living than adults.
They have the ability to have an awful good time with themselves.
Perhaps if we become little children
As we may learn the real art of living.
SOme further thoughts about how we can go about this, in a minute.
So many people seem to have lost the
Kin, fresh, exuberant delight in life.
They are dull, unhappy, cynical,
Even disgusted and the light and laughter had gone out of them.
My wife and I drive back and forth from
New York city to our far in the country.
Pass the water reservoir Near carmel new york.
A few years ago during the long drought.
The reservoir was at one time dry almost like a desert.
Revealing on old stone wall that had not been
Visible since the system was establish over 50 yers ago.
There was something awesome about it.
It struck one is actually sinister.
8 milion people deppan ian in amrerica.
Water is still a marvelous symbol a life itself,
The people suffer from an inner thirst
Which cannot be satisfied by earthly reservoirs.
The reason for much unhappiness today because the
Deeper longing for peace of mind are not satisfied.
The longing for love is unfulfilled as
Is is also for desore fpr appereciation.
It is important for one to learn to live himself.