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“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that we are merely bit players in the game of life. Witnessing the majesty of beauty confirms that the real show lies outside us to observe and appreciate and not inside us to transfix us. True beauty charms us into seeing the grandeur of goodness that surrounds us and by doing so, the pristine splendor of nature releases us from wallowing in the poverty of our self-idealization. The bewitching spell cast by the exquisiteness of nature levitates our souls and transforms our psyche. When we see, hear, taste, smell, or touch what is beautiful, we cannot suppress the urge to replicate its baffling texture by singing, dancing, painting, or writing. Opening our eye to the loveliness of a single flower is how we stay in touch with the glorious pageantry of living.”

“Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

“What draws ants to even the most remote sugar crystals? What entices bees to flowers? It's the fundamental code of life. Hunger is a taste of yearning your life code carries that, when seated into a human body, translates into mental and bodily desires. In the short term, within a single life, childhood limitations or arousals sow the seeds of desire. Most human goals frequently revolve around good food, good clothing, intimacy, artistic/scientific expression, or financial success. Across multiple lifetimes, it all ties back to our underlying evolutionary hunger. That is why some of our dreams are unexpectedly different from our waking life goals. That is why siblings born from the same parents, nurtured similarly, have weirdly different life goals. This multi-life journey, when unaware, is exactly what we attribute to destiny, and when a little aware, we attribute to Karma. Once these little tributaries are done with their own little flow, they flow back to the original river. In the grand existential scheme, as temporary and evolutionary desires are satisfied, we flow back with the current of existential fulfillment. Spirituality helps us ride the original current, fulfilled and free from temporary desires. Life, in its microcosm, is complex enough, let alone the macro one.”

“If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.”

“Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.”

“If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.”

“A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.”

“In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.”

“A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.”

“Τα χαϊκού του Μάη I. Ρόδο του Μαγιού Τον Ήλιο που προσμένεις Ήρθ’ η Άνοιξη! The haikus of May I. Rose of May The Sun that you are waiting for - Spring has come! II. Η παπαρούνα Αλάθητα το Μάη Άλικο βάφει II. The poppy Unmistakably Scarlet hues in May paints Haikus on MAY (excerpt) and translation by Irene Doura-Kavadia”

“Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.”

“A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.”

“If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything.”

“Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.”

“Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.”

“In my mind, no other flower can compete with the perfection and the fragrance of the Peony. The silky petals, delicate shape, romantic shades and graceful foliage make this flower my all time favorite and I’m not alone. Brides plan their wedding dates around peony season. Flower enthusiasts plant them all through their gardens. Florists go crazy over all the different shades available from white, to coral, yellow to reds and every imaginable pink!  Sadly, this bloom can only be enjoyed in nature for a very short time each year. That’s the reason their paper counterparts have become such a hit!”

“But the flower can be no other. And in its natural state, it is fragile. It is vulnerable within a dangerous environment. However, despite its fragility and vulnerability, it continues to flourish throughout nature. Its seeds move in ways that can't be controlled and it grows fields of flowers.”

“A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.”

“If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.”

“If you try to sell honey to bees, they will laugh at you. If you try to sell perfume to flowers, they will chuckle at you. If you try to sell fruit to trees, they will jeer at you. If you try to sell rain to clouds, they will scoff at you. If you try to sell fear to wolves, they will howl at you. If you try to sell terror to lions, they will roar at you.”

“If God had a flower for each moment He thought of you, the whole universe would be a garden.”

“I imagine some artists like myself love the spotlight. It is a beautiful thing to have your art recognised. for it to be admired like a flower in the field. But I wonder, does a flower know it’s a marvel? Does it feel pleasure to be adored? Does it realise when it’s been cut? that it’s been commodified, that an entire value chain exists around it, that hands will decide its worth or would it prefer to be left alone, admired from a distance, its petals untouched, for the bees, for the air. I wonder…”

“I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with the relaxedness of a dancer, their arms outstretched above a shaggy mane. Life reveals few sights as distressing as the look of flowers standing mournfully at attention unstirred by the kisses of a million bees. This infection of uncomely reserve is the handiwork of sombre gardeners bred in sombre societies who will not consider their work done till their flowers exude in aspect that stiffness they esteem. They forget that God intended that we mingle with flowers and not merely admire them from afar. But there is a look in a fastidiously manicured garden that makes me keep my distance, a look that draws my eyes but scorns my touch, and that is why I condemn them.”

“If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.”