The Law of Growth and Expansion
That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and that loss leads to greater loss is equally true.
Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude. Charles Haanel—The Master Key System
There is actually a Universal Law of growth and expansion and we perpetuate that growth and expansion in our lives by our thoughts. This law is as dependable as the law of gravity, electricity, ether, attraction or other laws of nature. Growth is inherent in the Universe and cannot be stopped. By this law the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer, because each has a mind set that perpetuates itself and continues on in the direction begun. In order to reverse the pattern there must be some form of interruption that causes the individual to change his/her attitude, and thereby change his/ her condition.
All laws of nature are perfect and infallibly responsive to our consistent pattern of thought. They don’t work some of the time but rather all of the time. When we see a beautiful rose we don’t conjecture that the rose causes a seed but rather a seed causes the rose. What is in the seed must be expressed and in the season of roses, the bush grows and sprouts more roses. When we see a mighty oak tree, although it grows acorns in season, that oak tree was once in the acorn. We witness such massive growth in the tree and for many, many years it just grows. Because of the perfect law of growth and expansion it must continue.
Because nature does not make judgments, its law is that everything in nature grows. Within every human being the same identical thing is happening in our minds. In light of our higher intelligence we have the full authority to make choices. Whether we know the law or we are ignorant of it, it works perfectly. We continue to reap the harvest from the seeds we are planting in our minds. When the rich gets richer they are likely to say, “I told you so.” As the poor gets poorer, they utter the same.
In earlier times I loved to work in my yard. I learned so many lessons from the grass, weeds and the plants. Wanting a beautifully manicured lawn, was one of the more challenging experiences of my life. No matter how hard I tried to keep weeds and grass out of my flower beds they would just grow through any barriers I placed over them. Weeds would actually move sidewalks and grow between the dividers in the driveway and between the openings in the steps. It was sometimes very frustrating but I knew I had to live with the forces of nature by spending much time counteracting the force called growth. Even some of my plants had to be continually trimmed and pruned because of this law. I simply couldn’t find any measure that would inhibit it.
The crowning realization came when my wife, now deceased, gave me an assignment that I thought was ridiculous and, impossible. For years she was a serious rock collector and from her high school and our college days, every time she saw an interesting rock she would pick it up and add it to her collection. By the time we purchased our home she had hundreds of interesting rocks. The assignment was to build a rock garden in the corner of our front yard. That was easy, but when she explained how she wanted it done I was blown away. She said: “Take that large boulder from the backyard and place it in the center of the garden. Then I want you to plant tulips throughout the garden. Next purchase small rocks and spread them throughout the garden. Place larger rocks on top of the small rocks, then spread my collection over the larger rocks.”
I had a lot of respect for my wife but at those instructions I thought she had lost something. Those tulips were smothered with rocks and for the life of me, I thought I had wasted a lot of money on tulips. When Spring arrived I went to that garden every day. In a short time I was amazed to see rocks being moved and tulips growing around them. What a beautiful garden in the corner of our yard. At least one neighbor complimented us every day about the beauty of the garden.
Everyone reading this must bear in mind that the law works perfectly and our challenge in responding to this or any law is to think. Although I hope you will think prosperity, health and wealth, I will not attempt to tell you how to orient your thinking, but I will tell you this, no matter what your thoughts are, they will manifest and grow in kind, with the same or greater power of those tulips. Asking your thoughts not to grow and manifest is tantamount to stepping off the roof of a building and asking not to hit the ground. You will hit the ground, gravity is perfect and it insists that you go down. Similarly, whatever you think will grow. It’s the law.
The next time some seemingly uncaring and unsympathetic person says to you, “You are responsible for the negative conditions in your life”, take them seriously and check your thought patterns. The beauty is that growth is only for a season. You have the power to change seasons at any time. Aren’t you happy that the law is perfect and gives you what you seek, negative or otherwise, knowingly or unknowingly. We have not been dealt a bad hand; we have simply been given a power that we are using incorrectly.
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