Text of the meditation
Every natural law has its spiritual counterpart. Thoughts are seeds, which, falling in the soil of the mind, germinate and develop until they reach the completed stage, blossoming into deeds good or bad, brilliant or stupid, according to their nature, and ending as seeds of thought to be sown again in other minds.
A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while one who teaches themselves is the wise farmer of their own mental plot. The growth of a thought is as the growth of a plant. The seed must be sown in season, and time is required for its full development into the plant of knowledge and the flower of wisdom.
The seen is the mirror of the unseen.
James Allen (1864–1912), Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913) – public-domain text, gently modernised.
The original 1913 text is in the public domain.
