Seeds

When you plant a good seed in fertile ground and the climate permits it will grow and produce an abundance of choice products. When you plant a good thought in a fertile mind it will grow and produce an abundance of good things. What you plant is what you get.

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action", is a very true quote. Our thoughts are food for our mind and they affect our feelings, which are our body's reaction to them. Negative thoughts equal negative feelings and they can literally make you sick when you dwell on them. I believe our negative thoughts are the result of "thinking from behind". Things like, "I remember this experience from the past and it didn't turn out very well last time." Instead of learning the lesson that the original experience offered, we freeze and do nothing out of fear of failure.


An expression that I truly dislike is, "We have always done it this way". It goes along with the also irritating, "I am who I am". For me they both produce a picture of a very tall stone wall with not even a tiny crack to allow light or new growth.



I am always very grateful when I am given the opportunity to rethink and redo. While it is true that we can't change our past thoughts about anything or anyone we can use them as seeds to grow more positive thoughts about our today and tomorrow.

I believe Buddha once said "The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love".

What seeds will you grow?