When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticise it as ‘rootless & stemless’.  

We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. 

When it first shoots up out of the earth we don’t condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticise the bud for not being open when they appear. 

We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies.

Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential.

It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is whole as it is.

- Gallwey 1974.