“Preferences are a double-edged sword. The stronger your preferences, the stronger your antipathies, the more you will dislike things you do not prefer. The only people I have ever met who dislike flowers are gardeners. I know gardeners who say, with passion, that they hate – actually hate – certain flowers. How can you hate a flower? But when you have strong preferences and passionate aesthetic commitments, you can actually hate certain flowers.”

– Norman Fischer, from his book What is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind