THE SEED AND THE SOIL     If you plant a Mango seed in Alaska, it will not grow If you take a Northern Spruce and plant in in the Amazon rainforest it will not grow either There is the factor of the SEED but there is also the factor of the SOIL or environment Both are factors Both are necessary for life The positive intention and biological drive of a Mango simply will not live in Alaska The positive intention and biological drive of an Alaskan Spruce simply will not live in the Amazon   Just so the positive intention thoughts and visualizations of an individual are not necessarily sufficient to change the outcome of even the best planned or executed enterprise It is not that we mustn't try our very best it is only that trying our very best we still may fail We are at the mercy of so much   There are terrible, huge and mighty forces at work in the universe a universe filled with endless billions of other beings uncountable billions of galaxies a universe without any end at all How can we possibly have our way in all of it? Perhaps we are like fish in the deep sea unaware of the great drag nets of other forces and intentions which even now are sweeping through our small world   Perhaps we do not have a fate but, as the ancients in all cultures saw it the fates have us