The Seed of Holiness is Available Within Each One of Us
The Seed of Holiness is Available Within Each One of Us Engraved on the front of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi is the famous Greek saying by Socrates, 'Gnothi Seauton', signifying 'know thyself'. Today, a few of us are willfully ignorant of the presence of the Supreme Power right inside us and we go to liquor, drugs, and other inebriating substances for help. It is in this setting that these expressions of Socrates have expected of additional importance. In the Chandogya Upanishad it is more than once expressed, 'Tat tvam asi', 'You are That', which proposes that the Supreme Lord, the Higher Power, is not too far off in the deepest openings of our Being. Meister Eckhart, the incomparable German scholar, and spiritualist, instructed that the seed of God is inside us all. Similarly, as a rancher sows a seed, waters it, takes great consideration of it, and guarantees that the little plant blooms into a major tree, we also can understand our full other...