I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.
Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.
If you go to Italy and you drive from the airport to the town, there isn't 30 square feet that isn't planted by someone. Even next to the train tracks, they see the joy of the interaction with the planet as integral to the experience. The idea that you can get free arugula just by planting seeds. . . because it will regrow itself the next year. We've come a long way from foraging to now planting. The next step of that will be continuing that expansion of planting and really owning the crops.
When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.
Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'
You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.
Anything that you have is seed that God has given you.
We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground
The past could be jettisoned. . . but seeds got carried.
Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.
All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.