david hobbs
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WhyWhy do I need to see something beautiful to remind me what beauty is.
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meiah
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Hey...that my line!!!
Perhaps because each time something strikes you as beautiful, you learn what beauty is all over again.
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david hobbs
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| meiah wrote: | Hey...that my line!!!
Perhaps because each time something strikes you as beautiful, you learn what beauty is all over again. |
Well tough titterniferous because I just nicked it.
The thing that strikes me is the fact that the feelings come from within.
Why do we not contact those feelings and maintain them.
Instead we allow negative feelings to come in time and time again.
Perhaps we need both to keep the balance.
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Bravo
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Napolean Hill said that our minds are like gardens, we need to constantly put in positive thoughts (lovely flowers), or our brain will become negative (weeds).
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Raymond
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Ahhh, but some of us can see the beauty in weeds too.
I don't say 'weeds' I prefer to use the term 'wild flowers'.
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beantighe
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They say a weed is only a flower growing in the wrong place (for man, that is).
And in the old days, it wouldn't have been called a 'weed', it would have been called a 'herb', and most likely it would have had an important use, either as flavouring for food, as a medicine, as a dye, soap, antiseptic, insect repellent, wound healer, anaesthetic, tanning agent for leather, ink, all-purpose string, and anything else you can think of.
Wonderful things, plants. Maybe the beauty lies in realising this and all the marvellous things plants can do for us, and the fact that we'd be lost without them.
Beauty is also in the eye of the beholder, and the appreciation of it is something unique to human beings.
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Raymond
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While I'm off work at the moment I've been helping my Mum and Dad with thier allotment, - yes, Me, digging.
And I've started a little 'wild' section in the allotment because I've managed to make my parents' see that if you take from the earth you also have to give back.
I made a mound of earth at the end of the alloment and bought some wild flower seeds and planted them a while ago.
Already a lot of them have shot up and it's starting to look really quite nice.
Even my very fussy Mum (who had misgivings about a 'wild section' messing up her tidy allotment) thinks it looks nice.
When it's grown a bit more I'll post some pics.
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beantighe
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That's lovely, Raymond!
Did you see the James Wong series, Grow Your Own Drugs? I thought it was great, and I even bought the book. It's amazing the uses even the most common 'weeds' can have. It's wonderful to be able to make your own ointments and salves. (Besides which, you know exactly what's in them.)
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Raymond
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I didn't see that show Beany but I'll certainly be looking out for the book.
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evergreen
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We are reminded of beauty because we get lost in our lives and then every now and then we slow down and remember how simple it all is if we just breathe
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david hobbs
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And that is a truth.
Probably the only truth.
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david hobbs
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You know thinking about it breathing is the contact between this world and what ever lies beyond.
We draw life from the invisible with each in breath and with each out breath we give back to the invisible.
Just blown my mind!!!!!!!!
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evergreen
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 good stuff I'd say 
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meiah
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| Bravo wrote: | | Napolean Hill said that our minds are like gardens, we need to constantly put in positive thoughts (lovely flowers), or our brain will become negative (weeds). |
Its all just perception. There is beauty in all things if we look for it. If we look for it, we start to see it more easily until it becomes second nature. It is possible to live our lives in a place where we see beauty in all things.
And yes....I nuture my weeds
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meiah
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| david hobbs wrote: | You know thinking about it breathing is the contact between this world and what ever lies beyond.
We draw life from the invisible with each in breath and with each out breath we give back to the invisible.
Just blown my mind!!!!!!!! |
As it is with touch. We touch all, we sense what is not physical.
We just need to be aware.
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