Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

As the fox teaches the Little Prince what it means to form a meaningful relationship with someone, he makes a statement that it’s easy to read right over and yet that has profound meaning:

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I’ll feel. By four I’ll be all excited and worried; I’ll discover what it costs to be happy!

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

Our essential self comes into the world intact. In terms of our inner being, we are from the onset who we are—unique, unrepeatable, ever and always to be one of a kind.

What we are not when we start out is secure in this reality.

We instinctually know who we are when we enter the world, but as a baby we don’t know that we know who we are. This understanding is something that has to develop as the brain develops and as life draws it out of us.

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

It’s clear that the Little Prince has quite a disdain for grownups. This disdain is a symbol of how we grow up to be people who betray our essential being, which was squeezed by the boa constrictor of family and society when we were very young.

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

Do you ever become bored, depressed, or lonely?

Few of us go through life without experiencing a measure of at least one of these emotions, if not an intense dose of all three at times. Yet none of these emotions are part of our essence.

So if they don’t originate in our nature, where do they come from?

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

There’s something in us that resists the fullness of life. It’s a brain state that’s wired to hold us back, restrict us, suppress us, the root of which is fear of being who we really are in all our magnificence.

Billions in our world want to feel there’s something flawed about them, something not quite right, if not downright evil. They want to feel this way because it’s a familiar feeling and therefore in a way comforting. They’re used to it.

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

For many of the earlier years of my life, whenever I had a decision to make about what I ought to do with my life, I sought the input of others.

Often I’d discuss and discuss the pros and cons of the various paths that lay before me, going back and forth on them, trying to feel I was doing the “right thing.”

This “right thing” almost always meant pleasing others with that I decided so I would feel liked and accepted.

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince

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First we had Tiger Mom making the rounds with her extreme views of parenting. Now we have Jessica Beagley, a mom who appeared on the Dr. Phil show with confessions of disciplining her child with hot sauce and cold showers. She admitted that the reason she was on the show was because she had run out of options and wanted to get help. Disturbingly, an informal poll done by the Today Show revealed that 33% of moms felt the hot sauce method of punishment was appropriate.