A tale from China illustrates actions that make for peace. 

A man once asked to visit heaven and hell. When he reached hell he was amazed to find people seated around a huge banquet table. The finest foods were piled high on the table. What a feast! Perhaps hell was not so bad after all!

But when he looked closely at the diners he saw that they were all starving despite the food before them. You see, each diner had been given chopsticks which were three feet long! There was no way they could carry the food to their mouths with these long chopsticks. No one could eat a bite. What a hell indeed, to sit so close to a banquet and yet be unable to taste a morsel.

The man was then taken to heaven to observe life there. To his surprise he saw people seated around a banquet table in exactly the same situation. Each person had been given three foot long chopsticks in heaven too! But here everyone was happily consuming the delicious food. The residents of heaven…were using their yard-long chopsticks to feed each other.

A tale from China from Peace Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald

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Helping one another makes for peace.