Plants & Reincarnation

Each day in Siva's Sacred Gardens something magical is there to surprise and inspire. Nature's beauty and complexity are truly miraculous, if we but keep a wonder-filled heart and eye, alert to and aware of Siva's presence in it all, working from deep inside.

Here we share a couple of blooms from today, coupled with some interesting quotes about reincarnation....

Palm flower: \"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.\" - Benjamin Franklin

Morning orchid: \"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew... it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.\" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giant Hookerii anthurium seed pod: \"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.\" - Voltaire

Volunteer mushroom cluster: \"As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.\" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Golden Shower, sacred to Siva: \"I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.\" - Jack London

New cycad fronds: \"Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.\" - Albert Schweitzer

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