I remember I once read a small little book when I was younger and, as I recall, it was called The Little Prince. For some odd reason I only remembered the illustrations and had forgotten about the story. Time passed and I almost forgot about it fully. Until one day I saw this picture on the internet and it made me remind that little book.
So I looked for it on the web and around the house. Later I started to read it. I was amazed on how many life lessons were stored in such a small book. There was a special passage that really got me thinking. On chapter five the author creates an amazing way of telling us how to protect our hearts.
"Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince lived--as on all planets--good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants, and bad seeds from bad plants. But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth’s darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed will stretch itself and begin--timidly at first--to push a charming little sprig inoffensively upward toward the sun. If it is only a sprout of radish or the sprig of a rose-bush, one would let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, one must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it.
Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these were the seeds of the baobab. The soil of that planet was infested with them. A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. It bores clear through it with its roots. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces . . ."
As I see it, everyone has it’s own planet and he or she must protect it from the bad plants, which is just a fancy way of saying that we must keep our hearts clean of bad thoughts. We must also cherish and help the good plants grow.
Cherish the flowers and good plants in your heart and prevent the baobabs and bad plants from growing.
If you haven’t read this little book I really recommend it and I trust that it will help you on whatever you need.
