One Must Try to Become Like a Flower - Mona Sarkar

WHEN WE AWAKEN TO THE CALL OF BEAUTY, WE BECOME AWARE of new ways of being in the world. We were created to be creators. At its deepest heart, creativity is meant to serve and evoke beauty.

I understood immediately that certain things—attention, great energy, total concentration, tenderness, risk, beauty—were elements of poetry. And I understood that these elements did not grow as grass grows from a seed, naturally and unstoppably, but rather were somehow gathered and discovered by the poet, and placed inside the poem. —Mary Oliver

One hour of watering the flower in the other person can make him or her begin to bloom. It is not so difficult to do.

Then you must gather yourself and without frowning or a gritting of teeth concentrate on making your heart into some flower, maybe a gigantic begonia. When you can fully become a flower, you will know (if you’re in the Americas and it’s summertime) because sooner than you think hummingbirds will begin to flock and buzz around you, fighting to be fi

Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.