Fifty - Eighth Lotus Flower - Connection to inner flame

There is a flame at my center. It keeps me warm in life. The are things that cause it to burn brighter, and things that cause it to die a little...inside.

I know the effects that some things bring....but I am still in the world...trying. To stop testing the effects that things out there have on your flame will surely cause it to die? Won't it?

When you stop trying, testing, experimenting....isn't that when the world falls around you and you sink into apathy?

....and isn't apathy painful?

Simply to exist, with no fire, no passion, no need or want for life.....doesn't it numb your soul?

Keep fanning the flame....reach out and test, try, experience. Yes, the flame may die sometimes, but sometimes it will grow.But to not try at all?

Well....it will most surely die eventually.