Today’s Pill #210: “Flowers are only flowers because they fall”
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Today’s Pill #210: “Flowers are only flowers because they fall”
“If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, how things would lose their power to move us!”
James K. A. Smith • How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
lets the simplicity of the flowers, in harmony with the visual characteristics of the vase, reflect life’s beauty and evanescence.