Eating sugar

" 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 the 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 hungering.
- M.K. Gandhi


“The Little Boy and Sugar”

One day a mother came to Gandhi with her little boy for  help. She asked Gandhi, Please, Bapu, will you tell my little boy to stop eating  sugar. He simply eats too much sugar and will not stop. Gandhi told the mother to leave and come back with the boy in three days.

The mother returned with her son and said to Gandhi. We have come back as you asked, Gandhi turned to the boy and said, “Young boy, stop eating sweets. They are not good for you.”

The mother then asked Gandhi, “Bapu, why didn’t you tell my son that when we first came to see you? Why did you ask us to leave and come back in three days? I don’t understand.”

Gandhi said to the woman, “I asked you to return with the boy in three days, because three days ago, I, too, was eating sweets. I could not ask him to stop eating sweets so long as I had not stopped eating sweets.”



For the rest of the quotes I used in class, I went to a site called www.makesmethink.com. Check
it out sometime for a good reminder of all the sweet things you have in your life that you, maybe, sometimes forget be grateful for.