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Manito Park Conservatory Part 3

Posted on May 26, 2023 | 4 comments

May my soul bloom in love for all existence. -Rudolf Steiner

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? -Khalil Gibran

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. -William Wordsworth

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. -Rumi

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. -Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“stay strong through your pain

grow flowers from it

you have helped me

grow flowers out of mine so

bloom beautifully

dangerously

loudly

bloom softly

however you need

just bloom”

Rupi Kaur
Author
Milk and Honey

Maybe I’m not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I’ll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am. -Jeff Buckley

When you’re doing exactly what you want to do, it’s not tiring. You’ve been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you’re like, ‘Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.’ That’s what I’m doing. I’m playing among the flowers. -Colman Domingo

Bloom like a flower; unfold your own beauty. -Debasish Mridha

If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations. -Matshona Dhliwayo

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See the world around you!

Previous Manito Posts:

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 2

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 3

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 4

Manito Park Conservatory

Manito Park Conservatory Part 2

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on July 22, 2022 | 8 comments

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

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“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.” ― Will Rogers

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ― Ansel Adams

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Silence is a source of Great Strength.” ― Lao Tzu

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.” ― Pythagoras

“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on May 7, 2022 | 12 comments

“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” – Roland R. Kemler

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“Love is like wildflowers; It’s often found in the most unlikely places.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Small-Flowered Woodland Star /Prairie Star

“Wildflowers aren’t meant to be cut & tamed. They’re meant to be loved & admired.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“I think I like wildflowers best. They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow.” – Rebecca Donovan

“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.” – Rumi

“Wildflowers are the loveliest of all because they grow in uncultivated soil, in those hard, rugged places where no one expects them to flourish.” – Micheline Ryckman

“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” – Native American Proverb

“I’m going to give you a handful of wildflowers so, each petal that falls will remind you that the earth breathes, and the moon rises.” – Carolyn Riker

“Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood

Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood

Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves.”

– Bob Dylan, ‘Let Me Die In My Footsteps’.

“Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!” – Lady Bird Johnson

“If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.” – Therese of Lisieux

“Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It’s like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads.” – Pema Chodron