Daily Meditation: Saturday, July 24, 2010

Influences, good - consciously opening our inner doors to them

07/24/2010

Whether you are aware of it or not, everything around you influences you. But the important thing is to become aware of precisely that, so you can do some beneficial work on yourself. As soon as you feel that a being, an object or a natural phenomenon is a positive influence on you, make the effort to consciously open your inner doors and really let these influences in. If you do not open up, even the best things will remain ineffectual; they will not touch you. Go up to a gushing spring or fountain, and imagine it is gushing and flowing within you. Go to the sun, contemplate it, open yourself to it, and allow it to awaken the warmth and light of the spiritual sun in you. Go up to flowers, and ask them the secret of their colours and perfumes, and listen to them, so you too can learn to extract the most fragrant quintessences from your heart and soul.