Friday, August 12, 2011

Living in a Garden of Wonderful Scents

"Just as I can put my physical body into a garden of wonderful scents or into a stinking sewer, the same is true in the spiritual world. We each choose whether our lives will be a detective novel, a scandal sheet, or a scripture." - Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

I chose to put this quote on my website because it is so profound.  If you think about it and break it down....

...by putting our physical bodies in a garden or a tub of wonderful scents, we smell great, what we're smelling is great, we're relaxed and calm....ready for whatever life throws at us.

...by lowering our bodies into a stinking sewer....well, we just smell like crap, ready for a shower, clean clothes and a refreshing.

On the spiritual side of this quote...