"A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world." – Leo Buscaglia
["I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star." [AL II:6]]
Out of scattered debris, new stars are born. Hot gas and dust become something breathtaking; something purposeful. Likewise, we are stars.
["Every man and every woman is a star." [AL I:3]]
That is not just a pretty statement. Think about what it means.
And the Cosmic Rose signifies our journey from this act of creation to our ultimate awakening and realization about the connection between ourselves and the world around us. We are stars with our own Divine light and energy, and we unfold into individual designs, formed out of chaos, and become something beautiful.
"Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even assimilable to, your own. The impersonal Universe of "Nature" is only an abstraction, approximately true, of the factors which it is convenient to regard as common to all. The Universe of another is therefore necessarily unknown to, and unknowable by, you; but it induces currents of energy in yours by determining in part your reactions."- Duty
You were born with the fire of life within you to help you navigate the darkness outside of you.
"Out of the seething cauldron of my woes...thence grew the Mystic Rose. Its myriad petals of divided light; Its leaves of the most radiant emerald; Its heart of fire like rubies."- "The Rose and the Cross," Aleister Crowley
Just because there are many stars does not diminish the beauty and potential of each one.
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." – Antoine de Saint–Exupéry, The Little Prince