Article November 11, 1991 Issue

The man that we are

Health and our attitude toward others are related. For both to be truly good, we need to understand our real selves.

Celia Elena Marchetto

Original in Spanish

In a series of documentaries for television in our country, called History of the Secret Argentina, the quiet corners of our people's lives and history are shown. In one program the person being interviewed was a young man, seated before a landscape of mountains, forests, and a lake. He drew and painted birds of the place. And he said that he came periodically for the purpose of feeling part of the surroundings, taking part in the beauty and harmony of nature. He went on to explain that he believed harmony and perfection were the state of our natural being because he felt that the paintings he accomplished while at work there were complete through his becoming conscious of the innate perfection of what he was painting.

One can ask himself, What is it that leads us to yearn for harmony and to recognize spiritual perfection—to feeling good, and thinking about it, living it, and carrying it out in different ways? Isn't it good itself? Isn't it ultimately that our real, natural being is good? Otherwise, how would we recognize harmony as so desirable and so satisfying?

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