From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
19 December
The story of the Garden of Eden, looked at prosaically,
shows Adam and Eve - a husband and wife team - involved in a multitude of
mundane activities: sowing, irrigating, tilling, harvesting, storing,
distributing. They could have viewed themselves as live-in gardeners on the
estate of some absentee Landlord. But instead, the harmonious meshing together
of all these disparate elements became "Paradise". The psychological
source of this harmony was, of course, their attitude, their sense of self
worth. Just like them, you and I can transform the plethora of the mundane
within which we are positioned into Paradise by transforming our attitude, our
sense of self worth. For we are not nearly so hermetically sealed off from
Paradise as we've conned ourselves into believing.
It's all in the attitude.
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