We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
If you let hydrogen
If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans. Brian Swimme
Rose Bush
Golf isn’t just about
Golf isn’t just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges – the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. Amy Alcott
Let us try to
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr
…I remembered the rose
…I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor–they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all … Read more
Meditation is how to
Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think. Rajneesh
I think that people
I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It’s like watching a rose bush grow. Rachel Naomi Remen