Alyssa Skyes

Garden of the mind

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Where what we cultivate within becomes the world we inhabit.

 

—Each of us enters life filled with the earth of a dormant garden, holding within us the seeds of every possibility. What we attend to, what we give energy to, is what begins to grow.

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—All things within the world of form are accumulations — even the lives we experience. Just as form begins atom by atom, the patterns of our lives grow through repetition.

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—If we wish to change ourselves, we need not remake our lives all at once. We begin by changing the small accumulations we choose each day.

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—If you wonder how you came to stand where you stand, consider your habits—of action and of thought. They are the maps that have paved your way.

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—Without clarity about what we want, we may spend a lifetime wandering in circles, hoping to arrive in paradise.

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—Resentment itself becomes an ethos that destroys.

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—We all choose what we water and grow within us. Love is the one thing that can always be chosen.

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—When difficulty greets me, I tell myself: “Choose joy anyway.” And it works.

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—We spread our thoughts no less than flowers spread their pollen, and through one another humanity continues to grow its possibilities—both the good and the bad.

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—Even if we do not experience the extremes of life personally, we encounter them through empathy and imagination.

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—We are creatures born to experience and to create. We flourish with all that is good, and we are also the ones who bring harm into form.
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—To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release, to pass through life and to be passed through by life.

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—We are temporary vessels carrying something that does not feel temporary.

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—We are the eyes through which creation witnesses itself.

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