Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd Above the green elms, that a cottage was near And I said, 'If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here.'
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories