Daily Meditation: Saturday, August 10, 2002

Hunger forces human beings to organize themselves to find …

08/10/2002

Hunger forces human beings to organize themselves to find food. They either produce this food themselves or they work to be able to buy it. If human beings did not know hunger they would do nothing, that is beyond question. Nature, being provident, has discovered a very effective tool with which to fight laziness. This tool is the stomach. Need and want are the only remedies for laziness. This is why lazy people must be left wanting, because want will bring them out of their laziness. Unfortunately, many mothers find it difficult to understand this truth. Because their love for their children is blind, they do everything in their power to ensure their children never want for anything, and in doing so they push them to laziness. Laziness weakens human beings. Mothers are capable of understanding many things, except that true love is to instil in their children a sense of effort. Once they have understood this, they will know they can give them what is most precious, i.e. health, energy, the need to surpass themselves and the joy of living.