Daily Reflection
This plant has intelligence, this plant has knowledge, this plant has a will to live. This plant knows how to fabricate flowers and fruit and how to continue to live in the best way it can. And it seems to me that this plant is creating less suffering than we human beings.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
Today we land our weekly series on impermanence.
As we consider what we’ve studied this week, it feels appropriate to remember that not only are human lives impermanent, so are all things.
As we consider the the type of world we make—or don’t make—for whatever life comes after us, it’s significant to ponder our alignment with that vision.
Are we satisfied to leave a world that is less healthy, stable, robust, and safe for whatever may come next? Are we inadvertently harming the continuation of our species by our short-term decisions and needs?
Considering the life of a flower—with its own intention, obstacles, and victories in life—is in many ways a wonderful metric for the way we use …
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