Everyone enjoys the stories pertaining to a hero. Luke of Star Wars, Harry Potter, the great wizard, Star Trek with the Enterprise. We cheer for the hero and feel a camaraderie with their trials and tribulations.
Stories such as these have more significance, symbolically, when related to our inner journey.
The life of a hero begins in youth because they are in pursuit of their independence, their enemies are those that try to hold them back from being the person that they want to be.
Their enemies start off being their parents, or their peers, they are quick to try and overcome the attacks on their independence. Showing signs of their "growth" by wearing certain clothing or getting something pierced or changing hair color, anything that will show that "I am different." Of course this drives parents crazy because they are no longer in "control" of the mind of their young adult. Breaking away from what is familiar is the beginning of their journey in finding out who they are.
I'm sure we can all relate to some degree to the desire we felt to become our own person. As strange as it may seem, it is all a natural process of growth.
After gaining our strength in dealing with the material world, (our parents and peers, our employers, and anyone else of authority that wants to mold us) we then become strong enough to visit our inner world, because we realize that the enemies are not those that we blame for our problems, but it is the inner problems that live within us that are our true enemies. The lions, the hungry animals that eat at us daily with our fears. those fears keep us from finding our true essence.
No longer having to prove one self to friends and or relatives. No longer having to fight the giants on the outside, we then journey where no one has traveled before - our inner space.
The traits of a true hero is to have love, compassion, forgiveness and selflessness. These traits must be applied to ourselves first. We need to learn how to love ourselves, have compassion for the journey we have trod, forgive ourselves for the "mistakes" we have made along the way and then take those qualities and share them with those that helped us ... our "so called" enemies. They are the ones that pushed us to higher thoughts. To be able to forgive them for the role that they played in molding us into the person that we now love. For if we truly love the person we are NOW, then we must forgive the person/persons that are responsible for the transformation.
This is the role of the hero. Slaying the lions, destroying the weeds, pruning the tree, they are all symbols of clearing the negativity from our thoughts so that our higher thoughts will have the room to grow.
As you take care of your spiritual garden, those that come in contact with you will see the beauty that emanates from your spirit and will desire to have the same kind of peace and joy that you have.
As a child, we think as a child, we reason as a child, our perception is unclear because we are basing our thoughts on our limited understanding. We grow in stature, but we take with us our childhood fears that have now become real to us because they have become a part of our personality. It takes the hero to free the child from those fears and then to grow in the wisdom of love and compassion.
It takes a hero to make the inner journey. To clear away falsehoods and the fears that have stood in the way of your happiness. It takes a hero to realize that the beasts do not live in the forest they live within.
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