For the flower, it is fully open
at each step
of its blossoming.
If a flower were to push itself to open faster,
which it can't, it would tear.
When we push ourselves to unfold faster
or more deeply than is natural,
we thwart ourselves.
For nature takes time, and most
of our problems of will stem from impatience.
Perhaps one of our hardest remedies to accept
for our pain of becoming
is that wherever we are in our path--
no matter how flawed
or incomplete--
is a blossoming unto itself.
However much we've done
at the end of the day
is more than
enough!
(Mark Nepo)
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