Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment,
at this place,
the whole of the flower
the whole of the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower,
the truth of the blossom;
The glory of eternal life is fully
shining here.