Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
Our problem mostly in our ...
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No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.