Looking for Peace. Value stories for children

There was once a king who offered a great prize to that artist who could capture perfect peace in a painting. Many artists tried it. The king observed and admired all the paintings, but there were only two that he really liked and had to choose between them. The first was a very calm lake. This lake

There was once a king who offered a great prize to that artist who could capture perfect peace in a painting. Many artists tried it. The king observed and admired all the paintings, but there were only two that he really liked and had to choose between them.

The first was a very calm lake. This lake was a perfect mirror reflecting the placid mountains that surrounded it. Above these was a very blue sky with faint white clouds. Everyone who looked at this painting thought that it reflected the perfect peace .

The paintings on peace

The second painting also had mountains. But these were rugged and bare. Above them was a furious sky from which fell an impetuous downpour with lightning and thunder. Down below, a sparkling stream of water seemed to rumble. All this was not revealed at all peaceful.

But when the King looked carefully, he saw behind the waterfall a delicate bush growing in a crack in the rock. In this bush was a nest. There, in the midst of the roar of the violent fall of water, a little bird was sitting placidly in its nest ...

- Perfect peace ...?

- What do you think the winning painting was?

The King chose the second one.

- Do you know why?

The king explained: "Peace does not mean to be in a place without noise, without problems, without hard work or pain." Peace means that in spite of being in the midst of all these things, we remain calm within our hearts. meaning of peace. "

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