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Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty?Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence?I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty?Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence?I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

Approximate author period: c. 1995 AD · modern

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Neale Donald Walsch
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Approximate author period: c. 1995 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Neale Donald Walsch, based on documented activity in 1995. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318860 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318860 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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