The Beauty of a Flower

November Project: Question #8

This is a question from an old friend, YM.

What is it about flowers that you love so much?

You already know the answer, but I'll give it for everyone else. ;)

The flower is the template for living a complete life as a human being.

The flower has its expression, which it gives over freely and selflessly, until the day it dies. It never feels it should have done more. It never feels inadequate. It never feels it has missed the life worth living. It just radiates beauty, perfume, and love.

And it never thinks to itself, "I have to radiate beauty, perfume, and love." It just does. That is the inevitability of its nature.

It will give freely, until the day it dies.

If human beings could live as the flower, for just one day, this world would be transformed forever.

6 comments, since Nove

takuinAuthor
November 10, 2010

Thanks for the compliment, Davidya. I hope you've been well since we last spoke.

takuinAuthor
November 10, 2010

Thank you, Tokumei.

Davidya
November 10, 2010

Beautiful, Takuin.

Sorry I've not been by more often but I am following all your posts. This one was especially good. Thank you.

tokumei
November 10, 2010

To the point, Takuin!

As always, Tokumei

kirk crist
November 30, 2010

consider the lilies of the field

takuinAuthor
November 30, 2010

...how they grow; they neither toil nor spin...

Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

;)

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