You Can Learn Strength From a Little Daisy.

Why you need strength

What do some of the greatest stories have in common? They start with a flawed character who transforms their weaknesses into strengths. That’s what we all want, and that’s what we need. Harsh times call for strong individuals. And in these times, you need strength more than ever.

Society, plagued by dehumanization, technocracy, division, violence, war, poverty, alienation, anxiety, depression, and lack of meaning, has left people more anxious and uncertain about the future than at any other point in history.

As a consequence, people don’t feel very hopeful for the future. Things are getting weird, and the world is becoming more and more unrecognizable each day.

Frighteningly, we are finding ourselves living out the prophetic warnings of 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 that, up until a few decades ago, were only considered science fiction.

So, the outside world is increasingly becoming more dysfunctional. There’s no mystery about that. And when outer resources continue to be more unstable and unpredictable, that’s when the individual has to go deep within himself to find a reserve of inner strength.

What is strength?

So, what is strength?

When you think of strength, it’s often associated with a stoic quality, marked by perseverance and boldness, or overcoming increasingly more difficult challenges in the face of resistance. It does sound pretty badass and tough when you put it that way, but that definition just didn’t seem practical.

Frankly, it seemed unproductive to me. Constantly caught in endless battles, being on the defensive, always trying to protect your throne, seems like a waste of energy. It just didn’t make sense.

Oddly, I found the truth about strength in the unlikeliest of all places: a children’s story about two daisies.

Funny how the truth finds you, huh?

Surprisingly, what you’ll find from this story about strength is the opposite of what you’ve been taught.

We’re all little daisies, but some daisies are different from the rest

The story went a little something like this:

There was this daisy—a cute, delicate, pretty little flower—out there in the middle of the prairie.

This tiny little daisy was just learning to grow and to come up out of the ground.

And this little daisy was terrified.

It was storming in that prairie.

The rain was pounding with the thunder.

The lightning crashed.

And the wind was howling against this one little daisy poked up,

The rain was continually pounding down on it.

The whole universe seemed to be against the little daisy.

Look… there it is… all alone with the world crashing down on it.

Daisies aren’t as weak as you think

You feel like that little daisy, too, right?

The world is allied against you growing and developing. That’s just a fact of life.

This is the way it is because this is the way human beings are.

Society as a whole is crashing down on the individual, threatening him.

Like that little daisy, you’re in the middle of that prairie, caught in the storm, and you’re terrified.

You don’t feel strong; you feel afraid.

The storm isn’t that powerful

There was another daisy in the same prairie.

Just like the other daisy, the pounding rain and thunder, the crashing lightning, and the howling wind were all against this little daisy too.

But this daisy was different; it was strong.

It was not terrified because it learned to tap into its nature.

It continued to grow.

And the storm continued to be as fierce as it always was.

But it had no affect on this daisy.

Because it had a calm strength that had no influence on it at all.

The main lesson of the daisy story

So, what’s the lesson here?

One daisy grew weak, but the other grew strong.

But what was the differentiator? What was it that made the second daisy stand tall in the face of the storm? Where did the second daisy’s strength come from?

The second daisy discovered its power by tapping into its nature. It saw where it was acting in its littleness and what kept it afraid of the storm. It had an entirely different relationship with the storm because the second daisy continued to grow not by battling the storm but by understanding it, through self-awareness.

The second daisy wasn’t adding more weight and resistance to become strong. It did the opposite. It became strong by removing the threats altogether.

Strength isn’t addition; it’s subtraction—it’s eliminating the psychological barriers that allow us to free our consciousness from fear and egotism. Strength is pure liberation, and it starts with self-awareness.

Strength is self-awareness

That is the real key to strength: self-awareness.

How do you develop self-awareness?

By beginning to recognize the patterns of thinking created from your artificial self—the intellect (negative accumulated ideas, beliefs from past external influences)—and how to use higher forms of consciousness for understanding. In our second installment, we’ll break down how to develop self-awareness and reverse destructive patterns.

What true strength really means

True strength doesn’t come from fighting harder—it comes from understanding yourself more deeply. Like the daisy, you grow stronger when you stop fearing the storm and start recognizing your own inner nature. When you remove the inner barriers that keep you small, you uncover a quiet power that nothing outside can shake. Strength begins with self-awareness, and that journey is where real transformation starts.