The world will become peaceful, beautiful and abundant
IF WE LAUGH AND CRY AT THE RIGHT TIMES

A young girl stood in a desert on a huge dome of sand, surveying the absolute barrenness of the earth. In her mind’s eye, she remembered scenes of terrible destruction and desecration in her life, lamenting all situations involving war, famine, chaos and distress. And through all this, she had kept a stiff upper lip. She had even retained a slight smile on her strained face in the hope that this would somehow ward off what she considered “evil”.

But now she stood on the huge sand dome overlooking the deserted ground. The smile was gone and her eyes brimmed with tears. SHE HAD NEVER CRIED BEFORE. There was nothing here but wind and sand and the white bones of dead camels.

As the wind grew stronger she noticed that a few clumps of dead twigs were blown across the desert, and at this point she burst into uncontrollable sobs. She walked on and on, blinded by her own tears, until she reached the very edge of the desert. Here she was greeted by a row of angelic beings who stood in her path. They stopped her gently and motioned to her to turn around.

To her great amazement, the desert was suddenly full of flowers. The small clumps of twigs were actually plants which had purposely uprooted themselves and formed ball-like shapes so that their seeds – still fastened to the twigs – had a better chance of travelling to fertile ground. The many tears shed by the girl had watered the seeds.

It was then that the girl realised the great power of the emotions which she had kept inside her for so long. She rejoiced in the desert garden, her new home, renamed THE VALE OF TEARS, and she laughed and cried there all day long, giving full expression to all feelings, knowing that her authentic behaviour was benefitting all.