Anything can be used

It's not the particular circumstances of your life,

But the interior landscape they give rise to That matters Anything can be used To tend your inner garden And make it bloom

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Early on in our lives, many of us are subject to the whim of circumstance. Naive and inexperienced, we are often unconsciously shaped by what is handed down to us and what happens to us. But as we mature, more and more, through experience and awareness, we begin to be able to tend to our own inner garden. In that sense, even though circumstance is still often out of our control, we realize that our inner landscape is in many ways up to us.

With practice and kindness, we gradually become able to use anything and everything that happens in our lives to tend to our inner garden. In that way, our state of being can become a sanctuary for ourselves and others.

Peace