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One day, when you wake up, you will find you’ve become a forest.

You’ve grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had.

You have become stronger and full of life giving qualities.

You have learned to take all the negativity around you and turn it into oxygen for easy breathing.

A host of wild creatures live inside you and you call them stories.

A variety of beautiful birds nest inside your mind and you call them memories.

You have become an incredible self-sustaining thing of epic proportions.

And you should be so proud of yourself, of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used to be.

'Blue-Eyed Grass' by James Crews

Devotion cannot be manufactured by will alone. It grows from experience, from the slow and intimate process of truly knowing something or someone. It is born through relationship, nurtured by commitment, and deepened through presence.

Often we speak of devotion as if it were a choice, but my experience has been different. Devotion seems to arise on its own, like a flower opening when the conditions are right.

Life unfolds through an endless cycle of birth and death. Each phase of life, each year, each month, each day, and each moment arrives, blossoms, and passes away. In this gentle flow of endings and beginnings, life continually renews itself.

"Notice the quiet presence"

A million roses make a song, and under the cherry blossoms in full bloom there is a great deal of drinking and singing. People are attracted to transient glamour in the same way as they follow fads.

On the other hand, the 'pine' tree, which remains unchanged, 365 days a year, evergreen is not talked about at the right time. However, its powerful appearance and verdant vitality are wonderful.

You will come to realise that there are those who quietly savour life without being swayed by the ever-changing phenomena of the world.

Pine trees always look the same green, but in fact, in spring, young, tender yellow-green shoots emerge and the dark green leaves gradualy turning brown and fall off.

Even though it may look unchanged, the status quo cannot be maintained by sitting still.

i'm searching my heart to find the love i once felt can you wait awhile