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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, they make
them.”
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it? And every
person who discovered this believed (for a while) that he was the first
one to work it out.
We become what we think about.
Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn’t
know where he/she is going, and whose thoughts must therefore be
thoughts of confusion, anxiety and worry – their life becomes one of
frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if they think about nothing…
they become nothing.
How does it work? Why do we become what we think about?
Well, I’ll tell you how it works, as far as we know. To do this, I want
to tell you about a situation that parallels the human mind.
Suppose a farmer has some land, and it’s good, fertile
land. The land gives the farmer a choice; he may plant in that land
whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care. It’s up to the farmer to
make the decision.
We’re comparing the human mind with the land because
the mind, like the land, doesn’t care what you plant in it. It will
return what you plant, but it doesn’t care what you plant.
Now, let’s say that the farmer has two seeds in his
hand- one is a seed of corn, the other is nightshade, a deadly poison.
He digs two little holes in the earth and he plants both seeds - one
corn, the other nightshade. He covers up the holes, waters and takes
care of the land…and what will happen? Invariably, the land will return
what was planted. As it’s written in the Bible,
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as
wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants - one
corn, one poison.
The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible
and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care
what we plant… success...or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal…or
confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety and so on. But what we plant
it must return to us.
You see, the human mind is the last great unexplored
continent on earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It
will return anything we want to plant. |
