“I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T. V.
Tower.
I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?”
An American Prayer (1978)
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Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen
Context: Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden — you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha. There is no contradiction … I say unto you, your every act should be a ceremony. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion: life itself will be the religion.

Part II.
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part I-III: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan

“I'd be a butterfly born in a bower,
Where roses and lilies and violets meet.”
I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
“I'm sick. It's passed down through my family. I am an addict. I'm sick.”
Regarding his meth addiction
[liveDaily, http://www.livedaily.com/news/5529.html, Interview: Travis Meeks of Days of the New, 2003-09-24]