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  %SEEK PEACE SERENITY TRANQUILITY REST ACHIEVEMENT 910606

     We  need  to  learn that it is good  to  seek  peace,
serenity, tranquility and rest. Too often we regard peace,
serenity,   tranquility  and  rest as rewards which we may
not  enjoy until  after  we  have  achieved:    prescribed
states   of  perfection,  required goals,   acceptability,
respectability, etc.  We cannot rest until all our work of
life is done?

     So long as we regard peace, serenity, tranquility and
rest  as   rewards  to  be earned  through  some  form  of
perfection; so  long  we  will be unable to  enjoy  peace,
serenity,   tranquility  and rest as  essential  parts  of
healthy  living.   We  will  keep  each  other  disturbed,
peaceless,   agitated  and involved in conflicts  and  the
overcoming of obstacles.

     Whatever we believe we are unworthy to enjoy,  we are
likely  to  regard  others  as unworthy to enjoy;   and so
we   are  likely  to  undermine  other   people's   peace,
serenity,   tranquility   and rest---so long as we do  not
believe  it  is  good  for us to  seek  peace,   serenity,
tranquility and rest as  essential and healthy aspects  of
living with  personal and communal integrity.

     Our   perpetual  striving  to  achieve  salvation  is
driven  by disintegrative ideals,   values and conceptions
of what  is involved  in  being  fully human.   So long as
we   are   so driven,    we  cannot   allow  ourselves  or
others  to  enjoy peace,  serenity, tranquility or rest as
essential  parts of being fully human;  and no  technology
will  fix  our drive so that our lives will be healthy  in
love.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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