it is not flowers that bloom, but our hearts which open reflecting on their beauty of color and shape. to see a blooming tulip is to experience a blooming spirit.
it’s the experience in life that makes each of us bloom.
it’s the hard winter that brings spring into our hearts.
an orchid matures from tender, caring hands.
a gardeners heart blossoms from the experience.
a tulip cannot grow without forethought and preparation,
without a winter, and without a spring.
winter brings spring into our hearts.
a cold winter, a death.
a warm spring, a birth.
a tulip requires winter to bloom in spring. without experiencing cold, dark nights, beauty will not emerge. such is life.
a tulip blooms after a cold, dark winter.
a tulip blooms in the dirt.
“Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.”
Youshida Kenko, Buddhist Monk, 14th century
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