Well, what has changed here? Has the cop change? No. Just the attitude toward him. 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.

Once upon a time, perhaps, you were thinking of being married and having a nice home and having a nice family; everything would be just fine. And then you got married and maybe it didn’t quite work out. Somehow or other, he comes home late and he has had an argument with the boss, and he doesn’t feel well. He doesn’t want to go to the movies and he doesn’t see how you have any work to do anyhow - after all, you sit home all day and do nothing - and you know he doesn’t do any work either. He disappears out of the house. He’s gone. Then he comes back later in the evening and quite an argument could ensue over this. Actually, both of you work quite hard. Well, what do we do with a condition like this? Do we just break up the marriage? Or touch a match to the whole house? Or throw the kids in the garbage can? Or go home to Mother? Or what do we do?

Well, there are many, many things we could do, and the least of them is to take a look at the environment. You know, just look around and say, “Where am I? What am I doing here?” And then, once you have found out where you are, why, try to find out how you can make that a little more habitable. 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.