The fate of a seed is to remain in darkness without the sun. A flower will die sooner than a seed—but is the seed truly alive?

When a flower is alive it dances beautifully and joyfully, while the seed remains closed and unbloomed in order to deny the end. It knows nothing of the moon, the sun or the stars; nothing of flowers and colours or the songs of birds.

It is free to bloom, yet it spends its entire life struggling against this burning desire. — Osho —