new day

[Jim T]

“The New Year is a great opportunity to begin anew. Because many
people look at the new year, the year to come, with hope. “I will do
better next year,” you promise yourself…Of course we have made
mistakes. Of course we have been not very skillful. Of course we have
made ourselves suffer. Of course we have made the people around us
suffer. But that does not prevent us from beginning anew and to make
things much better next year, or even the next moment.

Don’t be discouraged when you see that in the past you have suffered
and you have made other people suffer. If we know how to handle the
suffering, we will be able to profit from our suffering. It is like an
organic gardener. If she knows how to handle the garbage, she will get
a lot of compost for the growth of her vegetables and her flowers. It
is with the compost of the suffering that we can nourish the flower of
understanding, of peace, of love. That is why we have to learn how to
manage our suffering, how to cherish our suffering, how to transform
our suffering.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by
itself”