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A lot of philosophers have said this many, many times, but the truth of the matter is that all the happiness you will ever find lies in you.
You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day—and itwas a very, very beautiful day. You looked at the flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers—they are wilted. The day isn’t a happy day. Well, what’s changed? You know they are the same flowers, it’s the same world. Something must have changed. Well, probably it was you.
Actually, a little child derives all of his pleasure in life from the grace he puts upon life. He waves a magic hand and turns all manner of interesting things into being out in the society. Where does he do this? He goes down and he looks at the cop. Here’s this big, strong brute of a man riding this iron steed, up and down. Boy, he’d like to be a cop. Yes sir, he’d sure like to be a cop! Twenty-five years later he looks at the cop riding up and down, checking his speedometer and says, “Doggone these cops!”
Well, what’s changed here? Has the cop changed? No. Just the attitude toward the cop. One’s attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one’s living. You know, you don’t have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn’t change so much as you.
The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you’ve just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.
Excerpted from the book Scientology: A New Slant on Life by L. Ron Hubbard
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