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The time to blossom is now, not sometime in the future when you
believe the stars will be aligned for you. Having a
vision for our future that differs from our current circumstances can be
inspiring and exciting, but it can also keep us from fully committing to our
present placement. We may become aware that this is happening when we notice
our thoughts about the future distracting us from our participation in the
moment. We may find upon searching our hearts that we are waiting for some
future time or situation in order to self-actualize. This would be like a
flower planted in North Dakota putting off blooming because it would prefer
to do so in Illinois. There are no
guarantees in this life, so when we hold back we do so at the risk of never
fully blossoming. This present moment always offers us the ground in which we
can take root and open our hearts now. What this means is that we live fully,
wherever we are, not hesitating because conditions are not perfect, or we
might end up moving, or we haven’t found our life partner. This can be scary,
because we might feel that we are giving up our cherished dreams if we do not
agree to wait for them. But this notion that we have to hold back our life
force now in order to find happiness later doesn’t really make sense. What
might really be happening is that we are afraid to embrace this moment, and
ourselves, just exactly as we are right now. This constitutes a tendency to
hold back from fully loving ourselves, as we are, where we are. We have a
habit of presenting life with a set of conditions—ifs and whens that must be
fulfilled before we will say yes to the gift of our lives. Now is the time
for each of us to bloom where we are planted, overriding our tendency to hold
back. Now is the time to say yes, to be brave and commit fully to ourselves,
because until we do no one else will. Now is the time to be vulnerable, unfolding
delicately yet fully into the space in which we find ourselves. |
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