To be content with whatever you have made of your life is not the way to use the gifts you have been given. When a child is growing up, the first rule is struggle for survival. This is the animal instinct in all of us, which we learn through love from parents and siblings. It is this instinct to grab what we see in others. This starts as a tiny seed but grows with us each time we succeed in willpower or possessions.
It is blackmail of the emotions which some people call love, but it is a one-sided love when a newborn is being cosseted and loved. Their progress is marked by the things they reach for. Doting parents proudly watch as they grab shiny objects and lovingly coax them away from dangerous things like fire or anything that can hurt them.
But the most dangerous thing is wanting things for the sake of showing others that they have the power to possess them. The most dangerous time is when they think that because they are so important, nothing can be denied them. This is when they are completely without discipline. They have not been taught the Ten Commandments nor the laws of which civilisation is built upon. Other people’s suffering does not mean anything to them. This is when this animal instinct is at full power, enough to take over all other feelings, for all the things they cannot have has to be destroyed. Things of beauty upset their senses. The biggest problem is, they run in packs. The only way to stop it is to treat it like a contagious disease. Segregate them, treat them with kindness, leave out emotions.
Somewhere in them is a part of God, your Creator. Make them look at themselves to find the reason they are here. Then think: most of the things they destroy are material things. It is impossible to destroy things of God for they grow back again. Do not feel too bad when they vent all their fury, for they cannot destroy the reasons these things are built, only scratch the surface of emotions. And if only one soul sees the light, or learns a lesson, we are one step nearer to the world of heavenly peace.
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