4/21 Spiritual Practice Class- Excerpts from The Little Prince

"Please - tame me!" he (the fox) said.

"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time.  I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."

"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything.  They buy things all ready made at the shops.  But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.  If you want a friend, tame me . . ."

"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.

"You must be very patient," replied the fox.  "First you will sit down at a little distance from me - like that - in the grass.  I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing.  Words are the source of misunderstandings..."



And he went back to meet the fox.

"Goodbye," he said.

"Goodbye," said the fox.  "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:  it is only with the heart that one can see rightly;  what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"It is the time you have wasted for your rosé that makes your rose so important."

"It is the time I have wasted for my rose---" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.  You are responsible for your rosé . . ."

"I am responsible for my rosé," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.