To Build or To Plant?
'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin
that I had lost'.
A conversation between Brida O'Fern and Paulo
Coelho as a Prologue, of a novel Brida.
On 'taking risk', 'attitudes of life' and
'growth of the whole world'.
That’s a risk we’re now
going to take together, Brida. 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.
P. S.
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