"An anonymous text from the Tradition says that, in life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops.
Then, there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.
Gardeners always recognize one another, because they know that in the history of each plant lies the growth of the whole World."
Brida, Paulo Coelho
I definitely want to be the gardener.
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How about those destructors who seek to tear down walls and decompose organic matter. @:~)
They're gardeners. They seek for continuity in the cycle, and not mere milestones that mark the road.
There is no cycle , only the road forward to heaven's gates
Life works in a cycle. It continues in a cycle. Although one person's goal may be to heaven's gates, the life on earth continues from where he/she left off. Birth,life, death and rebirth... they work in a circle. Each part of us belongs to someone before us, and will belong to the next generation. We pass on a little bit of us to the next. Time may be linear, but life is not.
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