Don’t go outside your house to see flowers.
My friend, don’t bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers.
One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit.
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside the body and out of it,
Before gardens and after gardens.
~ Kabir, translation by Robert Bly
This week’s image ~ Many-Petalled Rose.
Thumbnail image ~ Coastal Victorian, Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, California.
