A man’s mind may be likened to a garden,
which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether
cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring
forth.
If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of
useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing
the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his
mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating
toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful and pure thoughts.
By
pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master
gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Taken from the book, “As a Man Thinketh” by James Allen
