Seasons

... And there comes spring, summer, fall and winter, spring again, another summer, another fall ...Often we are distracted by appearances and forget the essence.
Imagine a tree. The root provides all the nutrients to the plant, and then I wonder: What is the sap that feeds you? Have you been seeking to nurture yourself with good books and friends that enrich you? Have you been careful to your health and disciplined with the simple things in life? How is your reflection on the meaning of your existence?
Is the meaning of your life today to seek to be the best or the richest? Do you live for pleasure, avoiding all suffering? Is life all about this? One day the tree will be cut down or will die, what will be left is the oxygen that it has purified and gladdened to the eyes, the shadow that housed birds... If you die today, what would you leave? Do you consider yourself as an ”oxygen cleaner"? The tree is the lung of the world. What about you? Have you also cleansed the world? You, today, build the civilization of love in your home, school, university, work and neighborhood?
A tree without flowers, is still rooted, it has stem, sap, branches ... Do you wonder what you have developed in your life? Or are you a specialist in look at what you don’t have?
The flowers will appear! We already anticipated that the tree, so opaque and colorless, would be revealed. Love is this: looking at people in no mood, no motivation, apparently lifeless and admire them. It is loving and admiring the other, not only by their beauty of appearance or skin color, but also have an understanding that those we live with are not all the time in the "spring time". We need in meeting with others, get our nutrients for maintenance, growth and flowering. Our meeting, to give flowers and fruits need to be a true contact, deep, realistic and loving.
And there will come spring, summer, fall, winter, spring again, another summer, another fall ...