The first step you take is what
leads you to the last step.
The seed becomes the tree and also the
fruit. So, if the seed is of bitter gourd, you are not going to get tomatoes
from it. Unless you discover what you have done wrong, maybe get rid of all the
bitter gourd growth, till your garden and sow tomato seeds, you ain't gettin'
no tomatoes!
The problem is with the way we have all
been brought up. And the problem is with the way we continue to bring up our
kids. We have been taught that to be successful, you must be the first in your
class, you must compete and vanquish the rest, you must not trust
people__neighbors, classmates, even extended family because you 'may hurt yourself
or even be cheated'. We have been taught that security comes from money. And so
we must only choose vocations where there's money. But the soul demands
nourishment from love, joy and bliss as you reach your 40s and beyond. And by
the time you start seeking it__which is why you are on this Blog and reading
this post!!!__your seed of 'me-firstism and money-over-joy' has grown to become
a big, big tree and looks seemingly infallible. This tree will bear only the
fruit of 'insecurity and incompleteness'. You are insecure about many aspects
of your Life and you know that already! In order to help yourself to the fruit
called bliss, you must sow the seed of love – of loving Life and accept it for
what it is. You must tend the plant, as it sprouts, with joy. Only then will
your soul feel blissful.
The biggest gift that we can give our
children__and indeed to all of mankind__is to encourage them to take the right
steps, sow the right seeds and lead them to follow their bliss. You don't want
them to feel the way you are at your age, do you? If you want them to live
intelligently, let them to be successful with and in love, egg them on to
immerse themselves in what they simply love doing and you stop worrying about
them. When we sow the seeds of love and bliss in our
own families, we will harvest abundance.
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