The flowers look scraggly during the day, but at night they shine, as they pump out their scent.
I, too, look a bit scraggly by daylight, but, as they say, you can't judge a book by its cover. Ayya Khema, a Buddhist nun, warns us not to project a self onto others.
It has taken me years to understand what she means. Since we have a self (or so we think), we project one onto everyone we see. But this is not necessarily true.
The person who is self-less may not be visible to our ordinary eyes, but we might recognize her by the sweet fragrance of her actions.
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