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Finding Hope In Turbulent Times

Rise With Radhanath Swami

CHAPTER

Embracing Hope and Positivity through Nature's Wisdom

Discover the importance of focusing on positivity through the analogy of bees and butterflies seeking essence in flowers. Learn to spread hope and inspiration in challenging times by cultivating sources of positivity.

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Sometimes the flowers are in great abundance, blooming in the sunshine, and other times they're very far between them. But that butterfly just keeps seeking the essence. It does not get distracted from all other temptations or other activities that are going on. They deal with them, but they're seeking the essence. When they find that essence, they drink it, nourish themselves with it, and they're happy. Wherever that little bee or butterfly goes, they pollinate the area with that nectar. This idea of pollination is so important that if you receive something, if you become absorbed in something, then you carry that and you affect your influence, whoever you're with, wherever you may be. The trees, the plants, so many of the wonderful gifts that are on this earth are depending on those little bees or butterflies or other such people that come and spread that pollen. What the pollination does is it awakens the potential in those other fruits and flowers and vegetables. Similarly, everyone, we have our negative side and our positive side. There's always darkness and light. We need each other to go into the well where we can draw hope. Then wherever we go, we actually have the power to spread that hope. A fly, for instance, may be seeking unclean places. Therefore, wherever they go, they may be spreading disease. This idea of looking to the light, looking to the positive, cultivating hope is so very important in our own lives and in the world today. Then where do we find that nectar, that positive thought, that hope, that spiritual connection? When we seek people who inspire that hope, people who awaken within us, that happiness, people who give us a positive dimension in life and help us to see how trifling and insignificant so many of our worries and stresses really are comparison to the holistic picture of what really matters the essence.

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