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We have not built a human-needs-first society; we have built a business-needs-first society, and it is starting to show.

As the Buddha is said to have explained to a disciple:

“You are one of those gems, and every person, every animal, every tree and plant, every insect, every speck of dust that floats up into a sunbeam and down onto a road, is a gem of the net of Indra. Every emotion that you feel, and all the feelings that all beings have ever felt, even thousands

In the words of Anne Frank, “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar

The bud

stands for all things,

even for those things that don't flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;

(portion of poem)
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