When we plant a seed and walk away, when the conditions are right in that person, the seed grows.
That's why I believe so strongly in shaking trees as well as hugging them.
Both have their time and place.
Shaking trees allows the seeds to be shook out of the branches so when the time is right, the seed grows,
The challenge for the awake is to walk away after the seed has been shook out of the branches and planted.
We sometimes forget that it is not up to us to make the seed grow.
Someone else at another time. may water and fertilized that seed we shook out of the branches.