Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Weeds Of Life


We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives,
so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt,
that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

-- Dorothy Day

Friday, June 29, 2007

More Weeds

It does make a difference what you call things.

--Kate Douglas Wiggin


Most of us think of dandelions as weeds.

We buy special tools and poisons when they crop up and complain about them as surely as we welcome the spring that brings them.


Yet is there anything more lovely than a sea of yellow dandelions by the side of the road in June?


Or as remarkable in transformation as the filaments of the mature dandelion blowing on the wind?


Sometimes we let someone else define for us what are weeds and what are flowers.

We don't have to.

Much of the beauty of the world is that we ourselves decide what is beautiful according to our own feelings.

How lucky we are that, when we choose to, we can open our eyes and see!


Can I see the beauty in those around me right now?


More Weeds

It does make a difference what you call things.
--Kate Douglas Wiggin
Most of us think of dandelions as weeds.
We buy special tools and poisons when they crop up and complain about them as surely as we welcome the spring that brings them.
Yet is there anything more lovely than a sea of yellow dandelions by the side of the road in June?
Or as remarkable in transformation as the filaments of the mature dandelion blowing on the wind?
Sometimes we let someone else define for us what are weeds and what are flowers.
We don't have to.
Much of the beauty of the world is that we ourselves decide what is beautiful according to our own feelings.
How lucky we are that, when we choose to, we can open our eyes and see!
Can I see the beauty in those around me right now?