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, We become what we think about.
Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn’t
know where he’s going, and whose thoughts must
therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety and worry –
his life becomes one of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry.
And if he thinks about nothing… he becomes nothing.
How does it work? Why do we become what we think about?
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 “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.
– George Bernard Shaw
