An excerpt from The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
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'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? 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.
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Judy
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