“An anomymous text from the Tradition says that, in life, each person can take of of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops.
Then there are thos who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.
Gardeners always recognize one another, because they know that in the history of each plant lies the growth of the whole World.”
~Brida by Paulo Coelho
on Aug 23rd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Hello!
I’m a big fan of Paulo Coelho! You will love this! He’s the first best-selling
author to be distributing for free his works on his blog:
http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
Have a nice day!
Aart
on Aug 23rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
That is really good. I love it.
Blessings,
Lance
http://www.lancessoulsearching.com
on Aug 24th, 2008 at 5:48 am
just what i needed to read this morning!! Thank you!
on Aug 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Dear tania, it is a wonderful simple story. While life grows on and on the growth of a project will end some day.
But won’t a builder be happy to benefit from his results. Maybe he will start a new task.
What I want to say is, aren’t we all in some kind of view planter, in another point of view builder and in a third nothing of it at all?
That we go on with love in our hearts that is what really counts….
on Sep 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 am
What a wonderful choice of passage. Each human being is a gardener of his or her own life. You reap from seeds you sow.
on Sep 6th, 2008 at 9:59 am
That is a wonderful passage. Thank you for sharing it with us. It definately gave me a different perspective on life.
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-JP
on Sep 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
This is an interesting post. I think that like the gardener’s plants, our lives never stop growing and changing. In order for our lives to have meaning, we must continually tend to our “garden”.