30. Growth 成长

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not  

criticize it as “rootless and stemless.” We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they 

appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant 

the care it needs at each stage of its development.

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all

times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each 

stage it is the same thing a flower in the process of expressing its potential.