[00:09.83]Offer Nothing but a Smile
[00:12.07]A smile is a glow on our face.
[00:15.95]It is more powerful than a bulb of one thousand watts
[00:21.14]and the warmth it gives can serve us more than any electric heater.
[00:26.28]We are not fully dressed until we wear a smile on our face.
[00:31.72]A smile has a power of liberating one from the loneliness.
[00:37.22]There are many friends
[00:39.53]to receive it and return it abundantly.
[00:43.66]It was a great relief to understand the purpose behind offering a flower to god.
[00:50.16]A flower is a symbol of gratitude.
[00:53.47]The blossoming is the indication of
[00:57.35]living life in its full light, realizing its totality.
[01:02.54]It indicates the peak of necessity.
[01:06.29]There cannot be a level of being higher than it.
[01:10.60]And the offering is the proof of being thankful to god
[01:16.10]for the creation of such a tremendously beautiful world.
[01:20.73]A smile is the door to that gratefulness.
[01:24.54]If a flower is offered without a smile,
[01:28.11]it has no meaning; it is merely acting but not living.
[01:33.48]However, the acting can be a progressive phenomenon
[01:38.73]but the offering without a smile
[01:40.92]can drag us only behind,
[01:43.49]it cannot lead us forward.
[01:46.23]In prayer, the need is the offering of a smile;
[01:51.05]the flower is only an accessory.
[01:55.07]It should be remembered that a symbol is only a symbol.
[02:00.13]We can be full of love and life
[02:03.75]when we are even able to offer a smile to the trees,
[02:07.69]to the paths, to the buildings,
[02:10.51]to the sun and to the sky.
[02:12.82]The existence is hungry for our facial expression.
[02:17.51]It is good to satisfy that hunger.