As you sow, so shall you reap.
In order to have an abundant crop this year, you have to follow particular steps, in order. You have to cultivate and prepare the ground. You have to plant and sow the seeds. You have to water and tend to your growing plants. Finally, you have to bring in the harvest at the right time and put it in a safe place.
If you try to take a shortcut with any of these steps, all of your efforts will have been for nothing.
In fact, a key element of the law of the harvest has to do with our mind and our attitude towards life.
Your mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so you may tend the garden of your mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.
By pursuing this process, you sooner or later discover that you are the master gardener of your soul, the director of your life.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. As the reaper of your own harvest, you learn both by suffering and bliss.
Let us alter our thoughts and we will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of our lives.
http://www.morejoyinlife.com/the-law-of-the-harvest/
In order to have an abundant crop this year, you have to follow particular steps, in order. You have to cultivate and prepare the ground. You have to plant and sow the seeds. You have to water and tend to your growing plants. Finally, you have to bring in the harvest at the right time and put it in a safe place.
If you try to take a shortcut with any of these steps, all of your efforts will have been for nothing.
In fact, a key element of the law of the harvest has to do with our mind and our attitude towards life.
Your mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so you may tend the garden of your mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.
By pursuing this process, you sooner or later discover that you are the master gardener of your soul, the director of your life.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. As the reaper of your own harvest, you learn both by suffering and bliss.
Let us alter our thoughts and we will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of our lives.
http://www.morejoyinlife.com/the-law-of-the-harvest/
