“Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.” IfsShouldMeanEnergyCuttingSeriousFlowerShipsAlternativesValleysPeruLettuce Author:Joel Salatin
“When you're humble it's like wearing a beautiful flower. It inspires others. It generates energy and power.” BeautifulEnergyHumilityInspireFlowerBuddhismHumbleInspire OthersBeautiful Flower Author:Frederick Lenz
“When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.” MenChildrenSoulPlayWholeBodyEnergyGrowsNaturalEmotionFlowerMaking MoneyColourHelpfulCompassionateSteadyPerpetualMasculineAmusementPulseDollsPetalsDressed UpTrue Emotions Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“I remember passing through New York in college and thinking, Im going to come back here. The energy just made me think of Europe - everyone walking, seeing the delis and flowers outside. It just felt very familiar. I loved it right away.” ThinkingMadeRememberEnergyFeltSeeingNew YorkCollegeFlowerWalkingEuropePassingFamiliarPassingsPassing Through Author:Stephanie Szostak
“Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.” IdeasRealCultureLiteratureEnergyWealthCreationPaintingFlowerArchitectureDustAtmosphereEngagedLeisureBeesFloatsAntsColonySurplusIncessantlyGreat LiteratureParthenon Author:Edith Wharton
“One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color. Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life.” WorldLightYoungEnergySunGrowingSkyColorSonFlowerCircumstancesTerribleDespiteCharacteristicsGloriousSoilRemarkableSurroundSaviorYellowBudSustainingBurstingSunflower Author:Quentin L. Cook
“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.” IfsKnowsMayEnergyKnow HowMeditationMinutesFlowerWalkingTenPerceptionMindfulnessSittingAngerTwentiesEmbraceCome UpFollowingBreathingTrue NatureWalking Meditation Author:Nhat Hanh
“All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot help but smile.” HelpingTruthEnergySoundNatureRealizingRocksDivineFlowerAll ThingsSightSmile Author:Philip Toshio Sudo
“With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible.” IfsKnowsEnergyWorryKnow HowFlowerNegativeEmbraceHandleSomedayPositive EnergyNegative EnergyCompost Author:Nhat Hanh