Flowers Enhance Life and Ourselves

That flowers enhance our life beyond our livlihood is a very big reason most of us are in the flower business.. The beauty and color and intimacy that flowers offer us is sometimes what keeps us going. Flowers benefit us when we breathe deep and laugh that we spend our lives in a world of floral essence, thinking that we mean aromatherapy. It's what keeps us young, we proffer! So we can't help but be doubly delighted when we learn from Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth that flowers can be the enlightenment of plants and play an essential part in the evolution of humans.

"Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature," Tolle says. "Flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless."

Not only is it exciting to read these words, but to acknowledge the source of them as someone respected in the saying so. Already renowned for his Power of Now, Tolle's acclaim reached epic porportions when Oprah not only listed his book in this month's book club but is co-hosting the first free international teleclass to discover The New Earth. Nearly 500 thousand of us are taking advantage of the offer.

A FLOWER IS A WINDOW INTO THE FORMLESS

And in my little corner, I feel my toe might be on this path as the words came for this site that find some compatability with Tolle's insight. Without being contrived, the sense of what came to me here is that flowers-connect, and part of that connection was the ethereal. "When you are alert and contemplate a flower, crystal or bird without naming it mentally, it becomes a window for you into the formless," Tolle says. A reason why these three 'en-lightened' life-forms have played such an important part in the evolution of human consciousness since ancient times..."

FLOWERS ENHANCE HAPPINESS

Harvard Professor, Barbara Etcoff has research that says it's true. Flowers enhance happiness, if we can put our finger on what happiness is, exactly.

DISNEY'S FLOWERS AS MESSENGERS

And out of the mind of Walt Disney in the first color cartoon to win an oscar in the 1930s, we can see these messengers from another realm in action.For fun.

FLOWER PARABLES

I've had a postcard in my desk drawer for many years with a pen and ink drawing of the Girl who spoke with flowers and I liked the idea behind that, especially when most of my young adult life was aligned with the Era of Vulgarity. It came close on the heels of the Era of Sexual Liberation, but now heading into mid-age, most of us are sick to death of the four-letter words that replaced real conversation. So when I came across this parable about a girl crying flowers, it seemed like a good thing.

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