Flowers as our teachers…

Flowers, for me, have always been a beautiful metaphor for fully actualized human beings. They are each unique and beautiful in their own way, and would never contemplate the inferior or superior nature of other varieties. In the flower world dandelions are as precious as roses.

When I stumbled upon a friends blog on why flowers bloom, http://elleynekasepick.blogspot.com/ I became convinced again that flowers are some of our greatest teachers.

The article she quotes reads, “Flowers bloom… by bringing into play the ability they have to fully concentrate the whole of their potential as a living entity.” That sounds an awful lot like essentialization. By fully concentrating the whole of their potential they attract bees that help them bloom.

Just imagine what the world would be like if we stopped comparing ourselves to each other and simply embodied the whole of our potential. The energy in our bodies would attract everything we needed. Each of us would be entirely unique and lovely in our own way – and the flavor of the moment: tall, skinny, white, black, vuluptuous… would be nothing more than that – the flavor of the moment.

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