Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

Have you wished for life’s sweetness, yet it seems mostly to escape you?

The reality is that until we discover the well at the center of our own being as the Little Prince and his pilot friend have now done, few things in life prove to be as fulfilling as we hope they will be, anticipate they will be, expect them to be.

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

There are no appearances of Jesus after his resurrection in the vicinity of Jerusalem according to Mark—quite unlike Luke and John, which both have appearances in and around Jerusalem. The disciples are told to go to Galilee, and only there will they encounter him.

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

If you read the four accounts of the resurrection at the close of each of the four gospels, they are quite different—and mutually exclusive (as I’ll show in the next few days).

It’s not that the writers got the details mixed up or had poor memories. The differences are intentional.

Why would the authors compose very different, conflicting stories of Easter morning, knowing full well that what they were writing couldn’t be reconciled with the other gospels?

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

A number plate reads something like “got2beme” or “haf2beme.” I know nothing about the owner, just a car I was behind the other day.

But it set me to questioning: Who is the "me" that we've “got to be?”

I suggest that the "me" many of us believe we have to be is a concept of ourselves we carry around in our head.

It isn't who we actually are in our essence.

Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks

When we are trying to grow, the tendency is to get into a lot of “doing.” It may take the form of activity, prayer and meditation, or trying to control our thoughts.

No amount of effort that’s coming from the need to “do something” because we feel inadequate is ever truly transformative.

Oh, you may make some cosmetic changes—effort can accomplish that. But the fulfillment you are seeking will elude you.

Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks

Every painful situation that arises in our lives is an opportunity to discover more fully who we really are.

But usually we resist instead of opening ourselves up to the experience of awakening to our authentic self.

Now that he’s at death’s door, the pilot who is stranded with the Little Prince in the middle of the Sahara Desert finally gives up his resistance.

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

No matter how awful a situation is, if you once realize the death of your egoic identity you are experiencing in this painful situation is the opening to the restoration of the authentic self you once were as a little child, you can stop resisting and simply allow.