Rachel Naomi Remen
The marks life leaves
on everything it touches transform perfection into wholeness. Older,
wiser cultures choose to claim this wholeness in the things that they
create. In Japan, Zen gardeners purposefully leave a fat dandelion in
the midst of the exquisite, ritually precise patterns of the meditation
garden. In Iran, even the most skilled of rug weavers includes an
intentional error, the “Persian Flaw,” in the magnificence of a Tabriz
or Qashqai carpet…and Native Americans wove a broken bead, the “spirit
bead,” into every beaded masterpiece. Nothing that has a soul is
perfect. When life weaves a spirit bead into your very fabric, you may
stumble upon a wholeness greater than you had dreamed possible before.
Source: My Grandfather’s Blessings
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