The fruit of our labor

I asked the question "why is it so hard to become the change I believe in?"

The Universe answered, if the tree is planted in depleted rocky soil that makes becoming a sturdy productive plant difficult, it creates a low expectation.

Sociologist, anthropologists, and psychologists say our idea of who we are is given to us by our culture, society and primary relationships.  This socialization happens in different cultures and in all species.  Our family's teach us who we are by how they respond to us.We grow up believing that our true selves are unacceptable.

We only really become mature when we realize that we must return to our inner self and rediscover who we were meant to be and become that person.  We must stop living  life within the words of a script that was written for us  by people who  hated themselves but claimed to love us

Stop expecting the fruit of your soul to be worthless. Figure out what the highest expression of yourself is and live it.

Neuroscientists who once believed that the brain stopped growing with physical maturity now know that the brain, if maintained, continues to grow throughout life.  It is always possible no matter how old we grow to become a new person.

We must go through the dirty business of transplanting our selves into nutrient rich soil, replacing our inherited antiquated ideas of who we are with the belief that we can be whomever we choose at any given moment.

We must begin to see ourselves as the person we want to be before we can become that person.

Why an Orchard?

When I asked to understand how I could trust the Universe when my experience of this world had not taught me to trust but to doubt.

The answer I received was that the Universe was the tree and the world was the fruit. That the quality of fruit, was the responsibility of the pomologist [orchard keeper].

We each perceive the world as individuals, but our collective beliefs and actions resulting from these beliefs create the world we live in, the orchard.

My expectations of the fruit from the  tree will determine how I care for my orchard.  If I water, prune nourish, protect from pests, maybe even play music for, my tree it will bare delicious crops throughout life.  If I expect that the tree will bare rotten fruit, let it become infested with worms and bugs, overgrown with choking weeds, it will.

Is it the tree's fault?  Has the tree betrayed me? No...it was my expectation of the value of the fruit that was the culprit.