One Must Try to Become Like a Flower - Mona Sarkar
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One Must Try to Become Like a Flower - Mona Sarkar
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Anger: Buddhist Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
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A flower spreads a deep love and a peaceful sweetness in a unique, silent and generous gesture in a world torn by pain and sorrow. It expresses an ever-present harmony which love alone posseses.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, February 25, 1961
I once read a beautiful teaching attributed simply to “a modern educator.” It read: “Try to see your child as a seed that came in a packet without a label. Your job is to provide the right environment and nutrients and to pull the weeds. You can’t decide what kind of flower you’ll get or in which season it will bloom.”
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
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.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
What is the effort that daffodils make in order to bloom?
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel • Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart
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