Daily Meditation: Sunday, November 21, 1999

Is it not true to say that you love people showing you …

11/21/1999

Is it not true to say that you love people showing you consideration ? In fact, you feel it is only normal. So why are you not considerate to every being, to every thing ? Try, even, to show how much you appreciate every flower when you plant it or water it. You may say that a flower feels nothing. Well, that is exactly where you are mistaken. Furthermore, it is for your own benefit that you should appreciate this flower because you are the one who will acquire some virtue and merit. You make a considerate gesture of respect or love towards someone, and that gesture reflects on you. You need to apply yourself for years to all these small things and then, one day, you will reap the benefits. Do not go looking elsewhere, far away, for what is already nearby. You will never find the solution to your problems somewhere outside your everyday activities. If you neglect these daily occupations, the invisible world will make you return to them and rub your nose in them until you have learned to understand this truth.