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My dear friend, They recently discovered that flowers cannot bloom from smooth and consistent patterns of growth. Without a petal’s inner desire for freedom conflicting with its outer limitations - a flower hasn’t the strength to uncoil from its tightly whorled bud. Uneven growth, craggy growth, rugged growth is what causes petals to unfurl, and how beautiful the unearthed face we eventually see is that did not know whether it would reach the light. How undeniably more grace-filled is the world for the swoon and swell it took for each sepal to flick open from its floret of uncertainty. Sometimes the inner grows faster than the outer, sometimes the psyche becomes coarse while the spirit silkens, sometimes the future withdraws while the past intrudes, sometimes the only solid ground is found in the loam of presence to which all fluctuates… But eventually, and with patience, all becomes the face of wholeness, all becomes the light.
For the moments we question our progress, wholeness is not something attained through consistent, smooth, lateral strides but across uneven and jagged pathways we often have to twist ourselves around, and out of.