Planting Mindful Seeds
There is a famous saying, "You can count the seeds in an apple, but you can't count the apples in a seed." Big things often have small beginnings. Our thoughts are seeds and we are either mindlessly or mindfully planting them, as we move through our days, weeks, years - our lives.
Each day is a new opportunity and anything is always possible. Each day we are planting seeds in the orchard of our future. We are either unconsciously becoming the past or we are consciously choosing to become a catalyst for a new future.
If we act with wisdom, one day we will wake to find ourselves in an orchard of sweet ripe apples. If we proceed mindlessly, we may find ourselves in an orchard full of sour apples or worse a dead field. The choice is ours with each seed we plant.
We - the human beings now inhabiting this planet - have planted many mindless seeds. The way forward is to acknowledge that we all have reason to feel slighted or cheated, while being willing to release that victimhood and exchange it for empowerment. From empowered mindsets, we can plant mindful orchards that were never possible from our bastions of victimhood.
Simplistic? No, simple. Naive? Naivete is the habit of hopelessly believing in the impossible. A different world is possible, if we begin tending to our orchards more thoughtfully. We arrived where we are through our choices and we can achieve something far greater, if that becomes our choice.
Our challenges and struggles, prejudices and fears, hatreds and divisions seem large. We constantly feed our mindless victimhood and disempowerment with messages of "I can't" and "they will never change". Guess what? As long as we are trapped in those mindsets, we are 100% correct.
It is time for evolved people everywhere to step to the fore and move a sane and peaceful process forward where peace and not hatred is the primary crop. Some argue that peace is not possible in this world. To them, I can only say that as long as their view predominates; they will be correct. However, the moment humans are ready to accept the possibility of a peaceful world, it will become our reality.
Follow your bliss! Experience your bliss! Become your bliss!
Ray
Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and the author of The Power to Be You: 416 Daily Thoughts for Empowerment .
