Do you think the flower delights in my attention as I bend, love struck toward her beauty? Does she feel the splendor of my love and turn toward it like sunshine? I doubt it. Flowers bloom because it is their nature to bloom. Their beauty, seen or unseen, acknowledged or unacknowledged, is the natural expression of flower. And yet, as human beings, we are blind to our sublimity, desperately seeking the light of other… bending toward the hope of their appreciation, love, attention, affirmation or whatever hot-sought object or ideal occupies the nexus of our desire. Could it be that our beauty is as inseparable from what we are as the flower is to the bud? Is it possible that in our seeking to be loved we have relinquished the simple knowing that it doesn't matter. That what we already are has the power to stop someone in their tracks and cause them to bend, in wild wonder toward our own brilliance? Perhaps the act of seeking is a constant forgetting, blinding us to the simple expansion of our own blooming nature.
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