When Dr Bach was recovering from an emergency operation he
was told he only had three months to live. His determination to find a simple, gentle
healing method drove him to work night and day on his research, to such an
extent that the light shining from his lab window was called ‘the light that
never goes out.’[1] How prophetic – since the flower remedies hold
out a shining ray of comfort that has never gone out.
Poet John O’Donohue[2]
writes: “Love is the light in which we see light. Love is the light in which we
see each thing in its true origin, nature and destiny.… The loving eye sees
through and beyond images and affects the deepest change. To recognise how you
see things can bring you self-knowledge and enable you to glimpse the treasures
your life secretly holds.”
Of course the only way our eyes are able to see at all is in
the presence of light. O’Donohue continues, “The human eye is always … evading
what it does not want to see…. Many limited and negative lives issue directly from
this narrowness of vision.… how you see and what you see determines how and who
you will be….To the fearful eye, all is threatening… all you see and
concentrate on are things that can damage and threaten you… the judgemental eye…
is always excluding and separating, and therefore it never sees in a
compassionate or celebratory way.“
The flower remedies can change our fearful eye into one of
peace and calm. Beech helps us to see in
a compassionate and tolerant way. And
other essences restore our ability to see with patience, clarity, love and so
on.
The flower remedies come to us from the power of
sunlight. On our darkest days, they let
in the light.
Photo: Willrad von Doomenstein on Flickr
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