Lily: Why don't more people value life? Ron: Well, it's pretty easy to become disgusted with human folly. Ram: Such feelings lead nowhere - we've got to transcend all feelings and understand how emotions arise in the first place. Lily: Basically non-caring is a device to anesthetize pain: the zen of pure detachment: zero loss, zero gain, just silence. Ram: It seems that if we live for emotion alone, things get tainted. The human heart is a capable servant, but poor master. Lily: Maybe the opposite is true. Perhaps people don't listen to their hearts well enough. Most are too concerned about their pocketbooks, public image, or pleasures. Linda: There are many voices worth listening to, but until we get our priorities straight life will always be jumbled and conflict-ridden. Lex: It seems each season of life has its own priority: what appears important now might be of little consequence later. That's why I believe we can learn so much from plants. They 'understand' each season's priorities perfectly.

Priorities


Azaleas urrgh important

Morning glories haff value too

Snapdragons shuld nut be forgotten

Chrysanthemums bloom majestically
thanks ta microbes which renew

If we get ouwa priorities straight
perhaps we'll see nurturin' gardens
is matters mure thun moist thungs
humans do

If we take kare ah small gardens
& dah small kreatures in dem
perhaps we'll start ta see
dis whole planet iz a garden too


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