7 Quotes by Melina Sempill Watts

The Buddha achieved enlightenment while meditating under a tree. To what extent did the tree’s being contribute to the Buddha’s shift of consciousness?

The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.

By the emphasis on love and good works and all of those wonderful things in school and at home, parents sometimes fail to teach how to recognize the coiled rattlesnake.

Stitch. Pull. Stitch. Pull. Fabric turned. Stitch.María Marta’s mind wandered to the open spaces of her childhood, the rhythm of a cantering horse fueling her daydreams, Tree’s branches spreading inside her head, dissolving the cramped ceiling of the rooms that they rented into the majesty of open land and infinite sky. All the beauty of her youth stored up in her head, an endless supply of fresh air.

The Buddha achieved enlightenment while meditating under a tree. To what extent did the tree's being contribute to the Buddha's shift of consciousness?

Heaven is not a place constructed above the clouds, but the places inhabited by the breath of those one loves; remove the breath and all the miracles fell to delicate meaningless fragments like a house, a love letter, burning to ash.

Heaven is not a place constructed above the clouds, but the places inhabited by the breath ofthose one loves; remove the breath and all the miracles fell to delicate meaningless fragments like a house, a love letter, burning to ash.