. . . a treatment must be independent of the person who gives it. Now this is important. When I go out and plant a garden, I walk away and leave it, and I know something is going to make it grow. Its growth -- the law of its being, that which is going to react to it out of the Universe now -- is independent even of myself, though I planted it. I was the gardener only. We speak of "making" a garden. We plant one. Nature makes the garden; "God gives the increase." . . . the person who uses this Principle the most effectively is the one who is the most deeply inwardly convinced of a simplicity and an integrity of the Universe, and that he is the one who can do it. No conceit about it: he can plant the garden; the garden is independent of him. Ernest Holmes
