Daily Meditation: Sunday, August 18, 2002

The instinct of possession is not reprehensible in itself. …

08/18/2002

The instinct of possession is not reprehensible in itself. People who want to possess something are right in wanting to do so. Nature has given them that right. Their physical body, for instance, belongs to them and it is best if they keep it for themselves. They may of course use their body to make all kinds of exchanges - words, looks, smiles, greetings, help - but they cannot give their body. Look at the tree: it keeps its roots, its trunk, its branches, but it distributes its flowers and its fruit. This is how nature has organized things. And an initiate, who has understood this lesson of nature, does exactly like the tree, in that he preserves his roots, his trunk and his branches, symbolically speaking, but widely distributes his flowers and his fruit, in other words his thoughts, his feelings, his words, his light and his strength. And you too should learn what is alright to give and what you should keep.