About: Tending the garden within

Every journey of self-discovery begins with the same realization: we are the ones who prepare the ground for change, but transformation itself is part of a greater creative process. There is no contradiction between being responsible for our own lives and recognizing that powers beyond our understanding complete that creative process.

Consider a gardener who must prepare the soil, but who does not make the plant grow:

• Preparing your own consciousness is like the gardener preparing the soil.
• Eliminating wrong concepts is like the gardener pulling up weeds.
• Removing your blocks is like removing rocks in the soil that hinder the spreading of the roots and later the plants.
• Implanting truthful concepts is like planting the seeds.
• Cultivating the proper attitude and patiently waiting until the seed has taken root and can sprout is like tending the soil, seeing that it has sufficient light, moisture and nourishment.

In doing these things, the gardener fulfills their role, making the creative process possible. But the gardener cannot make a tree, fruit or flower grow from a seed.

If the gardener wants a certain plant, the proper seed must be sown. But it is not up to the gardener to accomplish the growth.

There is nothing in the world the gardener can do to actually make the seed develop into the plant.

Nothing.

A creative process is at work that requires the gardener’s cooperation. There are certain conditions the gardener alone can fulfill. But then nature must do its job.

We often wish for a specific result, but what we sow is the seed for the very opposite result. This causes distrust of life.

When we see that we always reap what we have sown—even when the results are painful—we can develop greater trust in the creative process.

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Learn more in Finding Gold, Chapter 8: Winner vs loser: Interplay between the self and creative forces.

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