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Wednesday of Hope – To Risk Opening
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin
When Is Time Really Wasted?
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Roses and Thorns
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. – Hazrat Inayat Khan, Gayan
How to Find Contentment
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu
Healing Light
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened. Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God
The Making of the Wise Heart
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. – Sara Teasdale
The Fragrance of the Rose
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. – Heda Bejar
The Rose Just Is
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones. They are what they are; they exist with God today. There is not time to them. There is simply the rose. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
