EVEN AFTER LOSING

A report from A.P. (London) was published as follows:

Mr. Stanley Jaki was born in Hungary. He is a Benedictine monk, a Christian theologian, and a professor of physics. He said that losing his voice for ten years became the means of earning $220,000 through his writings on science and religion. “A surgical mishap on my throat in 1953 gave me time to write and to think—and that’s not always the case. Many writers of best-sellers don’t think at all,” he said. Mr. Jaki, who won the Templeton Prize for progress in religion, believes that Christianity created the intellectual climate that allowed science to flourish. He is a strong critic of the view that science and God are unrelated. (The Times of India, New Delhi, May 14, 1987).

Mr. Jaki suffered an accident in which a faulty operation robbed him of his voice. Yet his ability to think and read remained. He made full use of those remaining abilities. Through ten years of silent effort, he wrote a book that earned him a prize of $220,000. Those who dwell on what they have lost after misfortune only deepen their ruin, while those who focus on what remains to them can rebuild and reach success again.