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What Does It Take to Be True to Yourself? – The Little Prince Series
Why does the pilot mention elephants in connection with eating baobabs?
He explains that even a whole herd wouldn’t be able to eat the baobabs on the Little Prince’s planet.
In fact they wouldn’t eat a single baobab.
So what does this strange symbol, the introduction of elephants into the story, represent?
When it comes to the unhelpful habits and emotional reactivity in our life, many of us wish there were some quick fix we could apply. We want an instant solution, a divine intervention.
We want a miracle, a healing by a famous spiritual “healer.”
Or maybe there is some “technique” someone can show us that will blast us free of the debilitating habits and emotional reactivity that grip us.
Isn’t it true that we wish we could stomp all over what we see as “wrong” with us and just get rid of it in one fell swoop?
Well, because we live in an evolutionary universe that develops gradually through a long process of self-creativity, it doesn’t work this way. Elephants, representing the “big intervention,” don’t cut it.
That’s not something to be disappointed about. It doesn’t work this way because it’s in our best interest that it doesn’t work this way.
The baobabs in our life serve a purpose, as we will see in future blogs when we get deeper into the story of the Little Prince.
Baobabs are a symbol of all the egoic traps we get caught up in that keep us from being present in our life.
The ego, and its flip side the pain-body, isn’t our enemy however. On the contrary it’s a necessary dimension of our development.
The ego, which is a false sense of ourselves, develops when our true self learns that it isn’t acceptable to our family or our society.
We come into the world a unique expression of the universal consciousness we often refer to as God. We are in the “image and likeness of God.”
But we soon discover that people want us to be in their image, their likeness.
The societal boa constrictor gets hold of us, squeezes the vitality out of us, and leaves us “dead while we yet live,” as a wise person expressed it. We buy into what family and society desire for us, abandoning our true being.
Somewhere along the way, often in our thirties, we begin to realize that something is amiss. We don’t know quite what it is, but we start to understand that the life we are living isn’t a life we have authored. It’s been foisted on us by family and society.
This is a theme that’s been illustrated in countless movies. Dan in Real Life, Chocolat, Notting Hill, and A Good Year are just four examples. It’s about learning to be realagain, as we once were as children.
What’s necessary is to excavate our true being, which is the person we were when we were first born. As Jesus said, the conversion we need to experience isn’t a religious thing: it’s a conversion back to the authentic child we were in our earliest days. Which, of course, is the central theme of the story of the Little Prince. As the story emphasizes again and again, children “get it” whereas adults are dense—unconscious.
How do we recover—resurrect—our true being, the person we were as a child before family and society squeezed us into conformity?
It’s a matter of daily pulling baobabs. Consistency is the key. Whenever we observe that we are veering from our authentic self, we catch ourselves. We correct our course and return to our true self, whatever others may think of us.
If we want to be conscious, present, aware, there’s no shortcut. There’s no magic wand can wave us there. Elephants, powerful and impressive as they are—like that latest guru, that newest spiritual teacher—don’t cut it.
It’s a matter of paying attention, observing, watching—noticing each time we veer off course into a fake way of being.
Becoming present, we return to our true self.
We are born again, rebirthing the original self we came into the world to be in the divine likeness and image.
About the Author
David Robert Ord is author of Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ and the audio book Lessons in Loving–A Journey into the Heart, both from Namaste Publishing, publishers of Eckhart Tolle and other transformational authors.
Join us in the daily blog Consciousness Rising for an in-depth understanding of how we become conscious, truly present in the whole of our life.
http://www.namastepublishing.com/blog/author/david-robert-ord.
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