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A Reckless Rush
Someone said to me, “Planting tomatoes and lettuce may be the gateway to everything, but not everyone can write books and stories and poems as well as you do. Please don’t waste your time with manual work!” I have not wasted any of my time. Planting a seed, washing a dish, cutting the grass are as eternal, as beautiful, as writing a poem! I do not understand how a poem can be better than a peppermint plant. Planting seeds gives me as much pleasure as writing a poem. For me, a head of lettuce or a peppermint plant has as much everlasting effect in time and space as a poem.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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“For one human being to love another is the most difficult task. It’s the work for which all other work is mere preparation.” — Rilke
“Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire.” — Teillard de Chardin
“Everything I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy
“If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.” — Pascal
“Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.” — Emily Dickinson
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