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B L O O M W H E R E Y O U A R E P L A N T E D
I have a vision for my future that differs from my current circumstances. This can be inspiring and exciting, but it can also keep me from fully committing to my present placement. I notice that sometimes my thoughts about the future distract me from my participation in the moment.

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. If 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, it 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 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...