“Both poetry and planting were increasingly truer expressions of the same thing: reaching for the unknown & being in relationship to the world.”
— William Stanley Merwin
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-poet-and-the-palm-tree/
concentration
Little by little you must train yourself for life, for happiness. You have to realize happiness is not something found at the end of a road. You have to understand that it is here, now. Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.