The Little Sapling Story

(Excerpted from Session 37, page 6)

I will give you a small story which you may contemplate through thisweek.  In this, be thinking of belief systems and of connections. My story incorporates two saplings, both exactly identical, both newlygrowing; one growing naturally and reaching towards the sun and baskingwithin its rays and drinking naturally of the rain and resting to the moon. The other is looking around and is viewing the sky and is seeing the sunand is saying to itself, „Maybe I should be growing at night.  Thesun is very hot.  It may burn me or it may sap my energy, and therain is very wet and it gets all over me and I am not sure I am likingof this rain and I am not sure that it is making me grow properly, andmaybe I should be investigating where this rain is coming from and I shouldbe analyzing the sunrays to be sure that I am incorporating the propervitamins, or maybe the moon is more friendly to my growth and I would growtaller if I am growing at nighttime, while this idiot sapling next to meis being stunted by the sun.“  And in the morning, the one saplingis stretching its newly formed branches and uncurling its soft leaves andgrowing within complete trust, and the other sapling in the morning isviewing the same sun and is looking at the beautifully formed other saplingand it is looking like this:  (Here, Elias twists his body and faceinto a grotesque contortion)

Now; this story is about belief systems and the noticing of these beliefsystems.  It is also about trust and connection.  It also incorporatesproper personal responsibility.  The one trusting sapling incorporatesa genuine personal responsibility in not trying to change or help the analyzingsapling, but as it grows true and strong and trusting, it radiates an example. It shines in its essence as an example to the other sapling, and as theother sapling convolutes itself throughout the day, it notices the straightsapling and it chooses the focus of effortlessness and trust as being easier,for it has been shown an example.  Therefore, be all the trustingstraight saplings, radiating your example.