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me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
y spirit was lifted and my soul nourished by my time in the garden. It
gave me a calm connection with all of life, and an awareness that remains
with me now, long after leaving the garden.
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one has his own most real thing. Mine is the garden.
he garden must first be prepared in the soul first or else it will not
flourish.
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we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it
is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower
the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even
more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers
are worthier of our admiration.
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its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead
us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than
a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all
beings.
After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate,
something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace,
and celebration.
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may have to learn again the mystery of the garden: how its external characteristics
model the heart itself, and how the soul is a garden enclosed, our own
perpetual paradise where we can be refreshed and restored.
Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment
of Everyday Life
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