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
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
