Philosophy and Notes on Life
Building a Seedbed
Thoughts and accumulations like these are not formed in a short amount of time. They take shape over years, through experiences, reflection, and returning to the same questions.
So these words, in all the links here, come from a garden of the mind planted many years ago. And like gardens you must care about what you plant. You have to watch and notice what it needs, how much light, how much water--to bring out the healthiest blooms. You have to be willing to try again and again as you learn.
And then there are the seasons, like changing times. The seeds in our minds, both flowers and weeds, are always looking for the right conditions to grow.
In the earth, what you sow is what you reap. Every human mind is a garden capable of every level of growth. We cannot continually sow division, anger, and resentment and expect civility, unity, and love to bloom. When hate is planted repeatedly, we should not be surprised when it bears a full harvest.
What we think and share cultivates the garden of humanity. Before pointing outward, we might step back and examine the fruit our own mind gardens are producing, in our actions, and what we share. Both in person and online. Is it contributing to love and unity, or to more division?
We must watch all the seeds we allow to spread within the winds of our circles.
Related Topics
→ Time & Form: Consciousness, and the relationship between time and form.
→ Duality: Where opposites make experience possible
→ Human Nature: Each of us a gear that turns another, even as another turns us.
→ The Architecture of Belief: Where the tensions of existence become human choices.
→ Garden of the Mind: Where what we cultivate within becomes the world we inhabit.
→ Love: Where the deepest meaning of experience reveals itself.