Everything begins as a seed. Stars, plants, galaxies, animals, people, and events. Everything that begins, must become: Within a seed is all that is necessary to become whatever it is meant to become because the pattern is always inherent to all beginnings. We call this potential. All things must realize potential in order to contribute something unique to the whole because no pattern exactly duplicates, and this is the purpose of all things.

Even though it is hypothesized that there are an infinite number of universes and therefore seeds, uniqueness remains. This means we are unable to be redundant: In each of these “mirror” worlds, conditions will diverge in some way, which will create a difference of experience. This difference means a different expression of the pattern, just as the seed of a dandelion will remain a dandelion, but no two dandelions are exactly alike.

However, we rarely understand what potential really means. We apply the word to what we BELIEVE is SUPOSSED to be the outcome of the seed; not to what it actually is or meant to be: We often try to force a pattern of recognition based on our own perspective so that we can understand it and make it known to ourselves, and more importantly, familiar. However, this does not actually change the seed’s nature: The seed of a dandelion will be a dandelion and a swan’s egg will eventually be a swan. In people, an inventor, an artist, or a philosopher, for example, will be born. The course of events that person’s life will follow will help to make that manifest.

So then, potential is the combination of the one true freedom that we possess – the ability to choose – and fate – that which cannot be chosen.

How effective our potential is, is also reliant on how much life force we carry and cultivate. In other words, how potent we are and / or become. The potential of something is the basis of its power.

In all things, there is the pattern of what it will be from its earliest moment of coming into being: The seed of the pine cone has the capacity to become a pine tree of a specific type. The same is true of any seed, whether organic or not. Each unfolds to become what it always was. And each will always grow towards both the light and the dark, for both feed the spirit.

This is the truth of the yin / yang symbol: Within all light is the seed of darkness and within all darkness is the seed of light. This does not refer to good versus evil, although it can. It refers to the roots of things and the leaves and fruits of things. One grows and is nutured in darkeness and the other other grows and is nutured by the light. Each resembles the other and true understanding only comes from comprehending both together and it is here where strength lies.

The seed is also affected in its potential by its surroundings, and its path of growth will follow the directions needed not only to survive, but to
flourish. These directions will stay true to the original pattern unless they are interrupted by new information. This new information is actually part of the pattern the seed requires. Nothing grows where it cannot survive and thrive in some way: The tree that grows up in a harsh climate becomes hard and strong. Perhaps not straight and majestic, but gnarled, with braches curling back showing us a different beauty – one that is surreal and otherworldly. What this means is nothing can choose what it will BE. It is what it is.

It is in this unfoldment that individuality becomes apparent: We begin to choose in what direction we will grow in. Our circumstances or environment will, to some degree, dictate how effectively we will resemble the choices we have imagined for ourselves. Fate and free will in harmony or, based on our own subjective bias, in discord. What we are at the beginning, although unknown to us, is what we will be at the end. Our recourse lies in of what quality we shall be.

So as seeds, we are able to become what we always were through choice. We are our own potential within the pattern we already are.