Don’t hurry. Don’t worry.
You’re only here for a short visit.
So don’t forget to stop and smell the roses.
Walter Hagen
Messengers from another realm:
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.
They are the hieroglyphics of angels,
loved by all men for the beauty of their character,
though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child
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The story says:
When Virgin Maria received messages from the angels,
the roses around where she sat, blushed into pink.
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Flower wisdom: “When we surround ourselves with high vibrations of any kind, beautiful music, a sunset, an embrace of unconditional love, our own spirit soars. It is on the spiritual plane that flowers communicate with us. Whether we are tuned into this wave length or not, we still receive their blessing.”
Because God is Beauty,
He created loveliness in flowers that they might speak of Him.
More than anything else in nature they hint at His presence.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Can we conceive what humanity would be
if it did not know the flowers?
Maurice Maeterlinck
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To truly remember a rose,
you must summon up the smell
in your cells with its fragrance again.
Can you smell it?
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Looking for a transcendent experience?
Meditate on the blossoming of a rose:
Imagine a rosebush in detail: roots, stems, leaves, and one rosebud on top. The rosebud is completely enclosed in its sepals. After clearly developing this image, begin imagining the opening of the rosebud, sepals first. The petals are revealed and are imagined in detail. Once the petals are clear in your mind, you too begin to open slowly.
While this is occuring, you become more aware of something deep within that is also opening up and coming to light.
As this rose is visualized, you feel that the rhythm of the rose, is your rhythm, the opening is your opening. You watch the rose opening up in its entirety, revealing all its beauty. You smell its perfume, and absorb it into your being.
Then you gaze into the very center of the rose, where its life is most intense. You allow an image to spontanously emanate from that center, without force or thought, that represents that which is the most beautiful, most meaningful, most creative, that wants to come to light in your life right at this moment.
You stay with that image and absorb its quality. Finally, you are receptive to any messages that emanate from this image.
A technique created by Assagioli, 1971.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
George William Curtis
Prayer
Levendel
