8-23-98

Dear Fellow Human Beings,

Some of the ideas here may be new to you. That's o.k.

The human mind is a wonderful thing.

It can count the petals on a lotus blossom.

It can look at the sky - day or night - and feel wonder.

It can reach into the soil and feel the Earth which feeds us.

We don't, as yet, have any idea as to the limits -if any - of the human mind.

Given the wonders of the human mind, who would want to control it? There have to be some laws, of course: don't jaywalk, don't steal, don't kill anyone. We need these rules to keep a society functioning.

But the number of rules one actually needs - like the number of tools a master craftsman actually needs - are few.

To dictate to a human mind how it should and should not think, is putting unnecessary limits on the human mind.

The mind needs to be free, to let a person grow and develop as each person is meant to, perhaps some as concert pianists, and others as mechanics, for example. Or teachers. Chefs. Farmers.

A person at birth is a seed ready to grow. We need to support and nourish each person until he/she knows what to do with a lifetime here on Earth.

The person may be a prodigy and know by age five, or be eighty-seven and still searching. Encouragement - not force in the form of dictated slots in life - is the key.

I wish it for all of you.

-- Judith McNally

writer, USA