Website owner: James Miller
In childhood our characters are shaped and formed. Childhood lasts a lifetime. Childhood presents us with a view and picture of the world. We finish childhood with a thousand tacit assumptions that we tend to carry with us through life unless we are of a thoughtful and questioning nature and later question and challenge them. For example, if our childhood years are spent in a family in which the atmosphere is dominated by such evil things as malice, spite, hatred, anger, jealousy, strife and argument then we finish childhood with the feeling that these things are life, that these things define people and human nature and they dominate domestic life everywhere, in every society. It takes vision for a person who has grown up in such an environment to say to himself, "Maybe these things don't have to be. Maybe it would be possible to have a home dominated by a good spirit of peace, harmony, warmth, affection, trust and goodness." "How might this be possible", he thinks. He then reflects, "To have peace you must first be peaceable yourself, to have warmth you must be warm, to have trust you must trust, to have goodness you must first be good, to have fairness you must first be fair. You get back what you give. If you give good things, then you will get good things back". Mar 1989
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