[blockquote source=”Anais Nin”]”And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”[/blockquote]

I’ve often wondered this feeling, my loves. The one in which we stand boldly at the crossroads between complacency and our own ‘most exquisite risk’.

Which path might we choose? What hardships might come? Thoughts fade into the last light of day, as indecision becomes our heaviest cloak.

And yet, deep within, there is this indisputable stirring; a sense that out beyond this space of not-knowing, Purpose waits for us with gilded wing.

For me, these moments have always been predicated by a much greater life challenge; ones that have helped me forge the patience, fortitude and resilience so very much needed.

But, much like the flower’s bloom, we tend to cling tightly to the only comfort we have ever really known, the coziness of this ‘closed off’ space.

Until one day, when we are suddenly made aware, that ‘risk to remain a bud’ far exceeds the fear of our own unfolding.

“Return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”  ― Masaru Emoto

For the first time we are cradled by the full warmth of the sun, and we wonder:

How on earth, we might have ever survived so long without it.