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• The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

  Homaro Cantu

  Flower, Sight, Tree

  "The Significance of the Cherry Blossom: From Beloved Tree to Cultural Icon" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2013.

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• The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Christian, Pain, Struggle

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• The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

  Brendan Fraser

  Rain, Heart, Yummy

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• Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Red, Firsts

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• Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Attitude, Laughter

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• My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, People

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Children, Believe

  "Report to Greco". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1965.

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• What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

  Stephen Spender

  Morning, Spring, Simple

  "Poems (I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1933.

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• The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

  Quentin Crisp

  Eye, Hair, Tree

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.

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• I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

  Thomas Merton

  Nature, Rain, Moon

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• To be a stranger in a strange land:
  Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
  There where my brother far away is ascending,
  The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  Wang Wei

  Travel, Brother, Men

  "Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon". "The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry", book edited by Robert Payne, 2014.

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• Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Meditation, West

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• Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Perhaps Love, Meditation

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• A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.

  Russell Page

  Buddhism, Men, Garden

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• Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Roots, Body

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• O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Wind, Knowing

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• And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.

  Opal Whiteley

  Song, Stars, Thinking

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• The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Notebook, Morning, Men

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 384), 1973.

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• Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Creativity, Dark, Night

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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