When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
Thich Nhat Hahn
The people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free.
Lloyd J. Thomas
Connect with the people you are most grateful for and SHOW your appreciation. TELL them how much they mean to you, and how much you value their love and friendship. Recognize and appreciate the good that God has given you.
Edward Viljoen
Let God be your teacher. Let the Tao flower in you. You don't need to control things anymore. When you are willing to be helpful, life flows through you. You become the channel, the means by which love without conditions can reach into the world.
Paul Ferrini
Living From the Heart
Always on my Desk
Glimpes of the Peak
2 comments:
my lettuce was trampled by my horse.. yet the surviving green came up and rejoiced by waving in the wind. I let it be. :)
I appreciate you.. miss you. I was thinking to email you .. thinking how much easier it is to pick up the phone and say this. I know that you are busy as well, but, you are missed.
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