Summer’s Almost Gone

First Day of Summer – Daisy

“The world laughs in flowers.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Do not claim to have acquired virtue unless you have suffered affliction, for without affliction virtue has not been tested.” – St. Mark the Ascetic

“Persevere with patience in your prayer, and repulse the cares and doubts that arise within you.” – Evagrios the Solitary

“The disciple will find out the plainly shown path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the (right) flower.” –– The Dhammapada (Chapter IV)