29/12/2025
Beside you there is a captive blossom in a dead sea of water, placed before all on the table.
Consider the implications of such an ornament. It is a copy of a blossom of infinite beauty, yet it lacks life, for life has never touched it. The fluid that surrounds it is also lifeless, due to distillation. It is a lifeless blossom in a lifeless sea.
All things on earth are transient, pass. To some in mortality thy gift is beauty and youth and this too must pass. Youth must give way to wisdom, beauty to compassion.
Words from our teacher, Paul.