Protecting Our Spiritual Sapling
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Protecting Our Spiritual Sapling
Robert Elias Najemy
When we plant a young tree sapling, we need to protect it from the various dagners to its safe survival. One danger is the lack of wtaer.
We need to see that it is watered frequently, until it is able to esatblish its roots deeply into the earth, insuring for itself a steady supply of water, regardless of external conditions.
In the same way we need to protect our newborn spiritual self from drying up cause of a lack of spiritual sustenance. We can do that by keeping company with spiritually oriented persons through seminars and gorup gatherings for such purposes. We can also water our inner spiirtual sapling through daily prayer, meditation and reading of spiritual texts.
Another danger is that passing goats might eat it. Thus we must ercet a temporary fence around the sapling, preventing the goats from eating its tender leaves and shoots.
Eventually, however, when the tree has grown larger and its leaves have risen above the level which the goats can reach, we can remove the fence without fear of there being any harm to the tree.
Now the tree is not only no longer vulnerable, but it can offer protection to the goats from the hot sun or the rain or snow. The goats right now benefit from the tree.
In the same way we must, in the beginning of our spiritual growth process, protect ourselves from company and contacts with persons who are not spiritually oriented, so that we can have the opportunity to develop our inner faith and discpiline.
(This does not include, of course, our immediate family, whom we have incarnated to sevre and love. Nor does it inculde persons who need our help. It does include superficial social and professional contacts).
By avoiding those who are negative towards spiritual values, and keeping company with those who embrace those values, we gradually strengthen our spiritual sapling into a full-grown tree, which no longer nedes any such protection.
Now, we can have contact with all types of negative influences without loosnig our center. Now, like the large tree, we can offer comfort, love and wisdom even to those who previously would have caused us to loose our spiritual center.
We need to determine whether we are saplings or trees and act accordingly.
(Adapted from the forthcoming "Contemporary Parables" by Robert Elias Najemy.
His book "The Pyschology of Happiness" (ISBN 0-9710116-0-5) is available at http://www.Amazon.Com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/holisticharmo-20 and http://www.HolisticHarmony.Com/psychofhappiness.Html. His writings can be viewed at http://www.HolisticHarmony.Com where you can also download FREE articles and e-books.
Robert Elias Najemy is the author of over 600 articles, 400 lecture cassettes on Hmuan Harmony and 20 books, which have sold over 100,000 copies.
He is the Founder and director of the Center for Haromnious Living in Greece with 3700 members.
His book The Psychology of Happiness; ISBN 0-9710116-0-5 is available at www.Amazon.Com and http://www.HolisticHarmony.Com. whree you can view and download FREE articles and e-books.
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