Power of Plentiful Wisdom

A Garden to Cultivate

Knowledge is like a garden: if it's not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

                                                                                                                           –Guinea Proverb

   Take care of your garden and keep on sowing your seeds, because you never know which one will grow. Some might be eaten by birds or not stand the weather changes, and some just might stand it all.

   The soil will give you back exactly what you have put into it. If you plant daises, you cannot expect roses. If you pollute the soil, the fruit it bears will be polluted and poisoned as well.

   Surely, a garden could grow all by itself for awhile, but eventually, the weeds will take over, so you won't even see the flowers.

   Our mind is a garden that should be the most cherished. If you care about it, you will always smell the flowers.

Unstoppable Water

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
                                                                                                                                 –Lao-Tzu

   A stream is always moving and making its way persistently, no matter what's blocking its way. With time, even a rock won't be in the way of water.

   Water adapts to circumstances, molding itself within the space given, yet nothing can hold it within the borders it doesn't belong to. If needed, a stream may even go underground and emerge some place else.

   Who knows where the water stream is heading? It might end up in river waters or it might flow right into the ocean.

Mighty Acorn

The greatest Oaks have been little Acorns.

                                –Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia, 1732

   Great things may come from small beginnings.

   An acorn does not look anything like a great, tall, sturdy oak tree. Easily fitted in a palm of a child, an acorn has not much resemblance to anything mighty.

   You can't see it or touch it, so you don't have any physical proof of its true hidden value. You can only have a vision while holding an acorn in your hand of a great tree standing tall one day.

   Not everyone can see a beautiful blossom in a bulb or a lovely garden in a seed. Even large streams take their beginning from little fountains.