A person'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 gardeners cultivate their plots,
keeping them free from weeds,
and growing the flowers and fruits which they require,
so may a person tend the garden of his or her 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 person sooner or later discovers
that he or she is the master-gardener of his or her soul,
the director of his or her life.
James Allen
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