Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian AndersenRead
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Break open_x000D_ _x000D_ A cherry tree_x000D_ _x000D_ And there are no flowers;_x000D_ _x000D_ But the spring breeze_x000D_ _x000D_ Brings forth myriad blossoms.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.
When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars are within you. The sun rises within you and sets within you. The earth moves within you. The flowers blossom within you.
I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.
To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance.
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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