4/18/12

The Man in the Mirror Project - The Legend of Johnny Appleseed

Here in the Unites States there is a legend about a man named Johnny Appleseed.  He was born John Chapman,  an American pioneer who introduced apple trees to large parts of the midwest. He became an American Legend while still alive, largely because of his kind and generous ways, his great leadership in conservation, and the importance he contributed to apples planting the seeds where ever he went.  


In yogic philosophies they say that we all plant seeds with our thoughts and deeds.  Those seeds could have been planted many lifetimes ago and are now "sprouting" in your life.  Currently, you are still planting seeds with your thoughts, although most of us are unconscious about how we are planting them.  If we think about every thought we think as a seed that we are actually "planting" in our universe would you plant the seed that you are thinking about now?  Would you actually send that thought into the universe to be ripened at some time later in your life?

This is one act of beginning to live consciously of the patterns within us.  For instance, if I was thinking "I'm never going to have any money", guess what seed I would have just planted?  Yeah, that would be the  "I'm never going to have any money seed."  Is that really what you would like to plant for yourself?  Or do you want to plant the "I'm going to be richer than all get out" seed?  The choice truly is all your own. 

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