Kicked Out of the Garden: Embracing Diversity as a Way of the Heart

Embracing diversity

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It's so obviously not something I'm doing that creates this miracle! I also like to reflect upon and appreciate the exquisitely, evanescent, transitory, and poignant nature of things in the garden. If you love the Dharma, you have to farm it. Go to a garden. Just stand in it. Breathe in the air, the fragrances, the light, the temperature, the music of the different plants, insects, birds, worms, caterpillars, grasshoppers, and butterflies. Inhale the prana cosmic energy of all the abundantly growing things.

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Recharge your inner batteries. This is the joy of natural meditation. Advice from Wise Persons. Green Way Research Subject Index. Because the garden is a paradise where a garden owner and a landscape gardener share the same dream in their common culture. Man first made a garden to try to produce a paradise in this world. The garden seems to be a paradise of the other world somewhere out of sight. Guest, Plant a Garden.

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People who are invested, people who are aware. They are gardeners regardless of whether or not they have ever picked up a trowel. Because gardening is not just about digging. Or planting, for that matter. Gardening is about cherishing. Scratching the soil, harvesting garden fruits, are peaceful results. With a garden, there is hope. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water. There is no mystery to it. They are simply following Nature's laws. Planting a garden is an act of optimism. Dwight, Gardens and Gardening , Atlantic Monthly , My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.

The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. This is why people garden. It can be easy but challenging, and the rewards are priceless. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Making the most of its shadowy day. It is a magical place because it is not divided. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners , but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

Designed to bridge borders, gardens shed light on the historical reality of their creation and creators. Like all Utopias, they criticize a concrete political situation, social relationships, constrains and shortcomings. Memories forever rooted in time were clustered in my garden consciousness like potatoes, waiting, crying to be dug up. I plant flowers and vegetables. I harvest memories - and life.

Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.

The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise.

Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening. For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind. It gave me a calm connection with all of life, and an awareness that remains with me now, long after leaving the garden. May we take fine care of the places where they grow.

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Earth won't have to shake and flood and burn so fiercely then. The world will be more wide-awake and tuneful, a place where children - all beings - can bloom. It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts. Different countries breed different gardeners. Our choices therefore lie not in whether but in how we manage the land.

We would all agree that we must do it in an ecologically responsible way. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell.

Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

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It is generally interpreted as a man-made place for recreation containing three elements: This is to have succeeded. How to Live a Good Life: He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn. It has a positive side. That is, gardening is "praxis". But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat.

The food which was not, he causes to be. In creating a garden, we not only open a door to Nature but to an ideal space, one we can control and order. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially.

Our growth as conscious, awake human beings is marked not so much by grand gestures and visible renunciations as by extending loving attention to the minutest particulars of our lives. Every relationship, every thought, every gesture is blessed with meaning through the wholehearted attention we bring to it. In the complexities of our minds and lives we easily forget the power of attention, yet without attention we live only on the surface of existence. It is possible to have a unique relationship with God through the portal of your own heart.

By sharing her own truth, struggles, and triumphs, the author inspires you to step back into the garden of your heart and find renewed faith, freedom, and inner peace. Read more Read less. About the Author Kimberly Ruth Taylor is a mother of seven children, who loves the outdoors, horses and gardens. Changemakers Books; Reprint edition July 16, Language: Start reading Kicked Out of the Garden on your Kindle in under a minute.

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Showing of 12 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The tone throughout the book makes one think you could be having coffee and a conversation with the author. As my title stated, this is a thought provoking book, multiple times what the author had to say caused me to stop and reflect on my own life.

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One of the biggest messages I will take from this book is the reaffirmation in my life and anyone can for that matter that I have the power to choose; we all have a unique path that is offered by God for us as an individual. I will be recommending this to family and friends, and I encourage anyone who wants to read a book with a very distinguished, inspiring outlook on how wonderful, beautiful, and joyful life can be when one follows his or her heart with God at the center of it all to grab a comfy chair and delve into this book.

One person found this helpful. This is such a lovely book about finding your truth. I want to thank her for putting her wisdom and story down in words. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Kim's writing contains both heart and wisdom.

Her journey through her Christian beliefs is both expanding and loving. Read it slowly as the power of her words will change you in ways you never expected and will open you to living more fully and freely in Christianity. When finished, you will be so thankful for the gift of her words and her insights.

She speaks through her personal truth that is fully experienced, and this makes her words come alive and ring with joy. I found this book to be an absolute treasure. It clearly shows by personal experience a wonderful and simple new approach to a true life and relationship with God. I feel blessed to have read it. Kimberly does a masterful job explaining how her life changed as she grew up, got married, had a family and found that the religious teachings did not bring her comfort or peace.

Trying to fit dogma around her life was making things worse. Using her intuition fueled by the dark night of the soul, she began to study the bible and learn from her own experience, just what the scriptures are really trying to teach each of us. Using her inner wisdom and knowledge in her heart, through prayer and meditation, the scriptures began to take on a new life. With that new life came an uplifting peace and knowledge of God in a way she never thought possible.

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