Nov 21 2008
Cultivating your own garden
I just finished reading Gifts from Eykis, by Wayne Dyer. The book is interesting, as it applies life on Earth in comparisson to life on Uranus, where Eykis lives. On Uranus, anxiety really attacks, and there is meaning and purpose behind everything. They live in an entirely reality based society. When Eykis visits Earth, however, she realizes that the world is truly stuck in the wrong way of thinking - nothing from her mindset is realistic and we are all wrong. She helps to provide gifts that will help the world become a better place.
Some of these include living in the present, not focusing so much on our ability to make money to accomplish something, but to accomplish what we can by living in the present, and truly enjoying this act. Her idea reflected being happy in our lives (since so many Earthlings aren’t) and to become better people through the growth of becoming happy. She called this cultivating our own gardens, and I love this. She said that we are all responsible for who we are and what we become, so we need to be responsible for what we make of ourselves. We need to ensure that we are keeping our bodies in good health, that we are shaping our minds with good information, and that we are growing ourselves into happy people to properly influence those around us.
This book is very short, and filled with a great deal of common sense information. Wayne Dyer doesn’t typically write fiction, however he really made his point in this book about how people can change their mindsets and influence not only themselves, but others as well in a positive way.
Check out the book.
