From Darkness springs..

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

 CORITA KENT

Look Closely at this rhododendron

BENJAMIN DISRAELI
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Soft White Rhodie

Rhodie, red with bee

Elie Weisel
I have learned two lessons in my life:

first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones.

Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings;

hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Parfait Peony

FRITZ WILLIAMS
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.

My Rhodie Tree

RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Rhodie Tree II
SOGYAL RINPOCHE
...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

SIMONE WEIL
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

Blossoms begin as pink..

GEORGE ELIOT:

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