Cover Illustration
by Kimberley Hevesy
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hello!
How to Plant a Garden
The Dedication
Rules for All Gardens
The Peace Garden
More About the Sun
Consider the Whole
The Eating Garden
The Park Garden
Being a Garden Yourself
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GARDEN
MAGIC:
Waking Up to All That Is Around You
By Delphi as told to
Patricia Jepsen
(2003, 8 1/2"x 5 1/2", 22 pages, stapled
booklet, US$6.00)
EXCERPT
Consider
the Whole
If you
plant your garden as a garden of peace, you
will be making a very important contribution
to Mother Earth and her family.
Every
garden should be a garden of peace where
everyone can come and find peace and shared
community with one another. A shared community
is like a family. We all work together and
help one another to be happy and well fed.
When you
planted your seeds you planted good thoughts
with the seeds, remember? Perhaps some of the
thoughts could be displayed on signs that you
have placed in different spots in the garden?
It would be nice to decorate those signs with
little flowers and butterflies. This, of
course, would help people to be considerate of
all life and to walk peacefully upon this
earth. You would be helping Mother Earth a
great deal by doing this.
Then you
could put a peace bench or two in your garden.
Where people would sit and be quiet. This
would be a nice addition to your garden, I
think.
One of
the most important things that people can
learn and experience from peace gardens is to
be quiet and listen. When you listen, you
learn so much. It also shows respect when you
listen to the talking trees and the singing
birds and all those who live in the garden. I,
myself, listen a lot. That is where I get most
of my information. I listen with both ears and
my heart.
I hope
you will plant a peace garden. I would like to
see Mother Earth be filled with gardens of
peace. And there would be benches everywhere
for people to sit and be still. And Mother
Earth would be happy again because people
would hear her voice and have understanding of
her ways.
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