So it is with many people.
Within every soul
there is a rose,
The God-like qualities
planted in us at birth
grow amid the
thorns of our faults.

Many of us look
at ourselves and see only
the thorns and the defects.

We despair,
thinking that nothing good
can possibly come from us.

We neglect to water
the good within us,
and eventually it dies.

We never realize
our potential.
Some people do not see

The rose within
themselves;
someone else must
show it to them.

One of the greatest
gifts a person can possess
is to be able to reach
past the thorns

And find the
rose within others.
this is the
characteristic of love,

To look at a person,
and knowing his faults,
recognize the nobility
in his soul,

And help him realize
that he can overcome his faults.

If we show him
the rose,
he will conquer the thorns.

Then will he blossom,
blooming forth thirty, sixty,
a hundred-fold as it is
given to him.

Our duty in this world
is to help others by
showing them their roses and
not their thorns.

Only then can we
achieve the love we
should feel for each other;