The book "Power of Plentiful Wisdom" takes you on the journey of rediscovering the hidden essence of common things. Everything around us is purposeful and meaningful. Starting from the change of seasons to building a house-it's all filled with insights for living wisely. The true wisdom is powerful and plentiful. It's open for anyone who seeks it.
Power of Plentiful Wisdom
By Julia ShpakAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2010 Julia Shpak
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4520-6474-1Contents
A Garden to Cultivate.....................1Unstoppable Water.........................3Pearls....................................5Born in a Duck Yard.......................7Palm Trees................................9Rose......................................11Masterpiece...............................13Grapes....................................15Fire......................................17Let It Rain...............................19Diamond in the Rough......................21Harvest...................................23Becoming a Butterfly......................25Wandering Ship............................27Learning to Fly...........................29Build to Last.............................31Hard to Reach Apples......................33Purified by Fire..........................35Bees and Wasps............................37Comparing Flowers.........................39Lighthouses...............................41Life as a Snowflake.......................43Journey...................................45Seed Within...............................47Mighty Acorn..............................49Spring Love...............................51Clay......................................53Swimming Upstream.........................55Ice.......................................57Love Flower...............................59Fruitless Tree............................61Game of Boomerang.........................63Hourglass.................................65Roots.....................................67Lead the Way..............................69Lonely Pilgrim............................71Timing....................................73Watchtower................................75Hunks of Wood.............................77Quicksand.................................79Anchor....................................81Unexpected................................83
Chapter One
A Garden to Cultivate
Knowledge is like a garden: if it's not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. -Guinea Proverb
Take care of your garden and keep on sowing your seeds, because you never know which one will grow. Some might be eaten by birds or not stand the weather changes, and some just might stand it all.
The soil will give you back exactly what you have put into it. If you plant daises, you cannot expect roses. If you pollute the soil, the fruit it bears will be polluted and poisoned as well.
Surely, a garden could grow all by itself for awhile, but eventually, the weeds will take over, so you won't even see the flowers.
Our mind is a garden that should be the most cherished. If you care about it, you will always smell the flowers.
Unstoppable Water
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. -Lao-Tzu
A stream is always moving and making its way persistently, no matter what's blocking its way. With time, even a rock won't be in the way of water.
Water adapts to circumstances, molding itself within the space given, yet nothing can hold it within the borders it doesn't belong to. If needed, a stream may even go underground and emerge some place else.
Who knows where the water stream is heading? It might end up in river waters or it might flow right into the ocean.
Pearls
A successful man is the one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -David Brinkley
High quality natural pearls are very rare. They are formed by oysters as a defense against any irritant such as a parasite or just a grain of sand inside the shell.
It seems that oysters follow a very good old rule: if you can't remove it, then try to improve it.
Hidden within the shell in the darkness, a pearl is created. It's pretty amazing how something initially so inconvenient can become something so beautiful.
Born in a Duck Yard
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. -Hans Christian Andersen
Young swans, or cygnets, are a brownish-gray color, and some people say that ducklings are more attractive than them at that age.
Yet cygnets mature into swans, which are the most beautiful bird of all.
Are dignity, worth, grace, aesthetic, and moral superiority determined by Nature rather than accomplishment?
Palm Trees
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? -Proverbs 18:14
The roots of a tree are pretty much its soul- take them away and the tree will die.
In the desert, where it's so hard to survive, palm trees seem to be very comfortable. It might look like there's not much going on, but the fight for survival is not always visible to an outsider.
The roots grow deeper and further out in order to reach distant waters. They make their way through miles and miles of sand and rock to prove that life is possible everywhere-it just requires some extra effort.
It takes a long time for a palm tree to grow, but we still see them standing tall. They might bend with the wind, but they don't break easily.
Rose
A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance. -Spanish Proverb
There once was a rose by the road. People passed by it every day and ran their gingers through its gentle white petals. But nobody took the flower home. Until one morning, the rose fell-unable to hold any longer.
Have you seen youth and beauty worn out and thrown away like a dry flower? People come and go, but true love stays.
Masterpiece
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. -Tony Robbins
A masterpiece is a true work of art with flow and character to it that cannot be duplicated. It is always one of a kind.
Broken pieces, unwanted and neglected by others, could become something far more than what they seem if they were understood and treated correctly.
In knowing hands, everything could be turned into means to achieve that perfect work of art-a masterpiece, as beautiful and colorful as life.
Grapes
Good wine praises itself. -Arabian Proverb
Creating a good wine starts with planting and growing exceptional grapes. They are the soul of the wine.
Climbing up, absorbing all the sunshine, the fruit becomes sweet and suitable for future processing.
Later on, depending on how you have handled grape juice, it becomes either sweet wine or vinegar. A truly good wine will always be appreciated and recognized everywhere; it would be priceless.
Fire
Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? -Luke14:34
Fire can burn in different ways. The flame will appear in either case, but how long will its warmth last?
Fire can be set on hay-a substance so lightweight that it catches the re butterflies right away. And so it ends, rapidly, before it could warm anyone.
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