Our mind is very much like a garden. We have a choice what
we may plant in it. We can plant whatever we choose. Our garden does not care
what is planted. It is our decision. Our mind like the garden does not care
what ideas we plant in it. If we plant two ideas, one poisonous to our well-being,
one vital to our growth and attitude, (remember, our mind does not care.) It
will cultivate the poisonous thoughts just as well as the vital ones. With this
can emerge two attitudes, woe is me or nothing can stop me. Our mind is far
more incredible and mysterious than our garden, yet it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant, success or failure.
Concrete, worthwhile goals or confusion,
misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. The laws of nature tell us, “What
we plant it must return to us.”
Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s
life is what his thoughts make of it.”
Disraeli said this: “Everything comes if a man will only
wait … a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and nothing can
resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.”
William James said: “We need only in cold blood act as if
the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing
into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become
so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which
characterize belief.” He continues, “only you must, then, really wish these
things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred
other incompatible things just as strongly.”
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale put it this way: “If you think in
negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms,
you will achieve positive results.”
George Bernard Shaw said: “People are always blaming their
circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people
who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
What do you plant in your Garden?
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