Lessons in Sand: The Inevitability of Change

There is a lesson in sand.  It teaches us the ongoing flow and form of time.  We are like the grains of sand being shifted by forces we do not quite understand.  By accepting this shifting nature of time and reality, we can enjoy the ebb and flow.  

Zen Garden 6

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing 
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.” 
― Rumi

Zen Garden 5

“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” 
― Rachel Carson

Zen Garden 4

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. 
--Robert W. Service

Zen Garden 3

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. 
--Jimi Hendrix

Zen garden 2

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. --William Blake

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