Spirituality is those qualities of the human spirit such as,love,compassion,patience,forgiveness,an intrinsic sense of responsibility and harmony.
The tree is mostly unchanging while everything around it changes. In the spring,there are freshly formed buds.In summer,the tree is bedecked with rich green leaves.Then, in autumn,the leaves turn red,orange,yellow and golden colours. As winter approaches, leaves fall off revealing the branches and limbs of the tree.When we look after the tree with proper water and fertiliser it grow with branches,it give shade, shelter and fruits and producing lots of oxygen for the living universe.
Although the outer dress changes,the tree remains fairly fixed. The constancy of the tree provides an instructive lesson. Success on the spiritual path rests on stilling the mind.We need stillness to meditate successfully.Meditation is a process of focusing on the light and sound within.
The fruit of the spirit Gal.5:22-23 "By contrast,the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things".
If we are like the tree,then thoughts can come and go around us like the changing seasons,yet we remain unaffected. No matter what season we experience in our life,we need to be like the tree,unchanging and constant,with our attention fixed on God during our meditations.We may experience daily life fluctuations.One way or other human nature is used to do sins,for that periodical confession is absolutely necessary to overcome it,then only we are become God's people.
John 15:1 to 5 "I am the true vine,and my Father is the vinegrower.He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit.Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you.Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine,neither can you unless you abide in me.I am the vine,you are the branches.Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit,because apart from me you can do nothing".So always keep God in our mind do good things, we can become strong in spiritual life.
Rom.8:9-10 "But you are not in the flesh;you are in the spirit,since the spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belongs to him. But the Christ is in you,though the body is dead because of sin,the spirit is life because of righteousness". The tree remain constant and intact there, even the seasons changes.Like if the Jesus Christ is within us, the holy spirit remain with us .
One day we are the beneficiary of good fortune,and the next day,ill-luck comes our way. Or there are up and downs in relationships. Our emotions are on a roller coaster as we go from joy to pain.When we cannot find a solution,the mind conjures up one reason after another to explain things. Let us not be sidetracked by the mind. If we can still our mind,no matter what is going on,we will find quick progress in meditation and attain the goal of God-realization.