
It is obvious when witnessing an animal threatened by death, that it offers all its resistance and tries to best of its ability to escape and survive. It may not be as apparent when we witness other forms of life such as a seed, nut, grain, pea or bean, but i​n fact they are the reproductive potential of the plant whose life purpose is to sprout and grow .
When we look at roots​, such as a carrot or potato, we realize that once we eat the root of a plant, it can no longer draw nutrients from the earth, in the same way the leafs are crucial for the plant to draw nutrients from the sun and the air.
Witnessing the play of life, it is evident that every life form has an inbuilt life-force with a natural instinct to grow, mature and multiply. What if we apply this perspective as we take a look at some of the life forms which we traditionally view as food?
Fruit!
If we look at the function of fruit in nature, we realize that the tree actually produces scented, sweet, juicy​ fruit in order to attract humans and other animals to come pick the fruit, eat it and distribute its seeds.
It is a carefully designed symbiotic relationship between the tree and the human or other fruit-eating animal.
When perfectly ripe, it offers no resistance within our bodies, but offers us vitality and aids our healing, in the most ​sweet and juicy way!
(...) Surely the fruit cannot say to the root "Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance." For the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root. (...)
'The Prophet' - Kahlil Gibran ​
Fruit invites us to create peace within our bodies at a cellular level and reforest the Earth with fruit trees, vines and bushes.
Fruit
​- ​A gift of nature