I have been reading lots of late. Letting days melt away into nights with a good book is one of my favourite things…
I read this today. I would like to share it with you.
‘You can give a fool a thousand intellects, but the only one he will want is yours,’ says an Arabic proverb. When we start planting the garden of our life, we glance to one side and notice our neighbour is there, spying. He himself is incapable of growing anything, but he likes to give advice on when to sow actions, when to fertilise thoughts, and when to water achievements.
If we listen to what this neighbour is saying, we will end up working for him, and the garden of our life will be our neighbour’s idea. We will end up forgetting about the earth we cultivated with so much sweat and fertilised with so many blessings. We will forget that each centimetre of earth has its mysteries that only the patient hand of the gardener can decipher. We will no longer pay attention to the sun, the rain, and the seasons; we will concentrate instead only on that head peering at us over the hedge.
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants at all.
Paulo Coelho
October 7th, 2012 at 12:13 am
YOUR WRITINGS ARE TAKING ME ON THE JOURNEY WITH YOU FASCINATING CANNOT WAIT FOR YOUR BLOGGS BE CAREFUL
ALICE
October 7th, 2012 at 3:10 am
Thanks Brownie! Missing the chats but will have lots of new material now 🙂 Will be out of internet land for a little while now… but there will be more posts soon… Am so glad you are enjoying x
September 26th, 2014 at 10:03 am
Reblogged this on Jyoti's Blog and commented:
Read this Paulo Coelho on Good reads today and absolutely lived it and see I some how got directed to this post with same post. So posting it as a good omen.