I could leave in the knowledge that I had done all that I could to ensure that these young girls would continue to receive the care and opportunities we had been able to offer over the years. In supporting these children, I had paid forward a debt of all the kindness, love, and opportunities that I had received over the course of my life. I was blessed with an opportunity to return a little of that and I am confident that my African children will continue to receive support to carry them to a better future and out of a life of quiet desperation.
40. Conclusion.
I can say that I have had a fortunate life. It has been good. Not all has been said and done yet. I would hope I still have poetry to write, songs to sing and pictures to paint.
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It is only our over egotistical protective system and our substitutes for our hidden hungers that creates and manifests imperfection. I believe that body and soul are essentially one, but also that the soul is superior; the body is a temporary and individual manifestation of the soul or spirit of the universe. Ego is necessary to protect the body from harm, to provide for the essential needs of life, and to be the force that drives us to a purpose. It should be a servant, not a master. Yet many fall into subservience of their egos. Greed, power, material acquisitions, and uncontrolled emotions take control, and the true human spirit declines. We live between hope and fear. If we need to believe that there is life after death, it is because essentially we have not learned to appreciate the gift of life. We cling egotistically to our physical body, believing it will consciously continue in some after life. Our soul has no such egotistic conscience. A life lived from the soul with a deep and wondrous sense of its incredible gift, is a life that has no fear of death. For the conscious body, death returns us to the state before we were born. Mark Twain wrote, “I am not afraid of death. I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it did not inconvenience me too …show more content…
The future of the human race and the future of this planet are in the children. The words of Mohandas Ghandi speak truth to this, “If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is