Beauty of Imperfection

We are going about life in entirely the wrong way. When you look at the flowers of spring, think of how beautiful they seem! But would you look at them in the same way without the icy chill of winter? The human being generally wishes to abstract out the parts of things, to view one aspect as existing on its own. Yet show me what on this earth, within this cosmos, exists on its own. Nothing can be extricated; the act of extrication instantly destroys what is extricated. 

The cosmos wants all human beings to experience things with the same joy again as though they were seen for the first time. How boring and meaningless life would be if everything was always the same! This is the glory, the beauty, and the mercy of nature. In truth, the idealized world that we see is a resistance to pain, an inability to endure pain. Despite all of the horrors of life, without them, spring would not be beautiful.