Rilke has a line in one of his poems where he
exclaims: "You were rich enough to be yourself A HUNDRED TIMES in just
one flower . . . , but you never did think otherwise." Rilke was
talking here about a rose, but I think he could just as well
have been referring to ANY flower species, or to any being, for that
matter. The point is that the essence of each and every thing is a
SURPLUS of aliveness, a sort of EXPLOSION of being - one that makes all
creatures inconceivably grand and mysterious!
Photo: Lewis Monkeyflowers, Glacier National Park, MT; August 1, 2013
Photo: Lewis Monkeyflowers, Glacier National Park, MT; August 1, 2013
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