Daily Meditation: Thursday, March 20, 2025

Spring - each year everything renews itself

03/20/2025

As soon as spring arrives, we sense that everything begins to stir—flowers, trees, birds... A new wave sweeps throughout all of nature in that most extraordinary phenomenon of life: renewal. Each year everything renews itself—everything, that is, except for human beings! Humans stay exactly as they are, closed and out of tune with this process of renewal. So now, if they really want to savour the new life, they must allow this life to penetrate and permeate them by opening wide all the doors and windows of their being. Some will say, ‘But we are past all that—spring is for the young.’ That sort of thinking cuts them off from the source of life. Everyone must be in step with this renewal, there must be no distinction here between young and old. Has an old tree ever been heard to say, ‘You know, we are far too old to produce flowers and green leaves, we leave all that to the young saplings.’? No, in spring they too cover themselves with foliage and blossoms. So, even old grandmothers and grandfathers must join in the dance, skipping and hopping and twirling—at least symbolically—and everything will go better.*