0:36
Peter Sorgenfrei reflects on Thích Nhất Hạnh's metaphor that lotus flowers need mud to grow. The idea: difficult periods aren't obstacles to your growth, they're the soil for it.
Peter Sorgenfrei reflects on Thích Nhất Hạnh's metaphor that lotus flowers need mud to grow. The idea: difficult periods aren't obstacles to your growth, they're the soil for it.
I'm gonna butcher this name, but Thích Nhất Hạnh said, no mud, no lotus. And what the Vietnamese monk meant was, in order for something beautiful to grow, there has to be something which is less pleasant. There has to be some mud. There has to be something that's maybe dark and brown in your life as a corollary, right? So just think about that. If, uh, as life gets a little bit messy, as life gets a little bit muddy, it's because a lotus or something beautiful is about to grow.
