Change your perspective with mud and flowers

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oh, but it's really so much more.................



It lives, grows and thrives in the mud.





The Lotus Flower

We cannot deny its beauty

Let it be an example


We live and grow in mud -



the muddy crap that takes up residence in our lives


............. our disappointments, our sadness, our pain, our tears, our grief, our struggles, our sorrow, our heartaches, our body aches........................


all of it


the crap of our lives


the muddy crap of our lives

 



Take a lesson from the beautiful Lotus Blossom


the more muddy, the more beautiful it becomes

Learn this lesson well.................


Open your mind, heart and soul up to welcome the muddy clouds that seek to destroy


Don't focus on it


Don't allow it to damper your spirit


Don't drown in it


And, for heaven's sake, don't resist it


for what we resist, will persist.






welcome it - embrace it


Be grateful and appreciate it - all of it






Life will include happiness - just not all the time.


Life will include suffering - it is what it is - that's a "given".


But, when we just allow the natural ebb and flow between suffering and happiness, without expectations, with acceptance, the mud becomes more tolerable

 



For it's from the mud that we will thrive and become beautiful, too


............just like the Lotus flower

Look in the mirror and recognize how truly beautiful you really are..............



♥