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The Honeybee Culture
When you are in a hurry to achieve something, it
means that you are denying the law of nature. You want
to build a world on your own and this kind of procedure
is not possible in this world. Those who engage in a
gradual process will find support in nature; and without
such support no achievement is possible in this world.
Why did God decree this gradual process as the course
of nature? He did so for the purpose of consolidation.
If you try to achieve something by leaping into things,
the final result will be like an uprooted tree. But when
you adopt the gradual process, you consolidate your
achievement.
The Honeybee Culture
Extract what is good for you and leave what is unwanted. Do
not waste your time in complaints and protests.
t is the honeybee’s culture to fly out from its hive every
Iday and reach places where flowers are available for it.
The bee extracts nectar from the flower and returns to
its abode. It pays no heed to anything else.
Where there are flowers, there are also other things
like thorns; but the honeybee simply ignores the
presence of those thorns and does not waste its time in
complaining about them. It simply extracts the nectar
from the flowers and returns to the hive.
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