A good time to start a self-cultivation practice is right now, do not wait for the right time. Even if you feel depressed, tired or too addicted to your habits, start right now. The idea is to start with small things, but be consistent and add a little each day, the benefits are endless.
There is great comfort in growing plants, it brings you close to the earth, nature, and the seasons. Whether it is just a few plants in your home or a large garden, you are nurturing and taking care of a living things. Taking loving care of living things will bring you serenity and pleasure.
There is an underlying essence or energy that is inherent in the universe. Try to find it, you can’t. It permeates everything and everybody. Use it and it is inexhaustible. Using it, our dualities will be forgotten and forms will emerge with incredible depths and dimensions.
It may be impossible to counteract the conditions of the time. It is not cowardice, but wisdom, to remain quiet and avoid action and wait for an appropriate time. A law of nature is at work, evil is not destructive to the good alone, but inevitably destroys itself as well.
Quote: Into each life some rain must fall.