Nurturing Ideas: The Art of Patient Growth

Before you bring your light into the full sun to be viewed and scrutinized by others, keep it close and in cultivated care. Allow it to foster and take root within you. Let it attach completely and fully, so that it becomes unshakeable by outside influences or notions. Ideas and inventions all begin in this way; if shared before they are fully entrenched, they can dissipate like leaves in the wind. They don’t disappear entirely, but instead gather with other ideas, forming a more solid, vibrationally rich presence, fully ripe and ready to fall into the basket of acceptance.

Like fruit being plucked from a tree, ideas have their best time to be gathered. If they are too early—unformed or unripened—they are firmly held on the branch. If forced off the vine of their sustenance, they become a bitter pill to swallow. Conversely, if left too long on the vine, the fruit will fall and rot on the ground, still providing sustenance for future growth and benefiting other fruits that are ripe for the picking. These ideas can easily release from their source and are ready for the basket or the enjoyment of consumption.

Your ideas are akin to this fruit. Allow them to remain on the vine, the source which is you, before forcing them off prematurely, where they may not be nurtured or allowed to grow. They might provide sparks of ingenuity to others, but no idea—no seed planted or thought—goes to waste. Each one gains an essence of its own and takes flight to continue its journey. Allow ideas and belief to ripen and firmly entrench themselves within you before you pluck and enjoy them.

Like mushrooms growing in the dark, once they are sure of themselves, they spread prolifically. This is the way with you and your ideas and desires. Foster them with care in the dark before the light of others' judgment falls upon them.