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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

 

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

 

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Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices

 

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such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is

 

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spiritual" when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.

 

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

 

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Rudyard Kipling:
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.

 

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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.

 

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Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

 

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow,
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!

 

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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

 

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Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.

 

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Life on the planet is born of woman.

 

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Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

 

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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

 

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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

 

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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

 

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

 

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You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.



Seneca:

 

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Whatever begins, also ends.