Stumbling on this fragment from Rumi’s wondrous poem The Fragile Vial got us thinking about seeds…
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Images of seeds viewed through an electron microscope revealed the myriad forms — all pure wonder —of those tiny beginnings…
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…that a plant, or an idea, or we can take…
Electron microscope images of seeds by Robert Kesseler, via The English Group
