The flowers above of Rauvolfia serpentine or Indian snake root in our courtyard caught my attention as they are smallest of all flowers in the garden now. This medicinal plant is in the endangered species.
Each flower in the bunch is in different stage of opening!
That was a good thought to begin the day with!
Each of us has multiple domains within and we are in different stages of becoming open!
Our inner world consists of thoughts of delight, peace, joy, goodwill, aspirations, fears, expectations, disappointments, anger, jealousy, grief, loss and the list can be longer.
They live within and accompany us.!
That is the 'baggage' the depth psychologists remind us about the interior state of our lives.
All the emotions of our interior life are in different stages of becoming present to our consciousness. It is when we become aware of each of the emotional states, we are able to engage them to have them integrated into the ambience and substrate of our lives contributing to the peace and wellness that we long for!
A flower opens to give fragrance and nectar.
Each event in our lives, however dark or incoherent it may look, has something concealed in it, which has the potential to make our interior life rich and confluent!
A senior citizen who writes a fortnightly message of encouragement to some friends, is living with cancer for a while. He carries others in his mind and gathers his thoughts and experiences, to send a message of inspiration.
What abides within us is light and not darkness or shadows of fear or anxiety, if we travel deeper into our soul!
It is calm water ten feet below the turbulent surface of the sea!
Metaphorically, what is growing within our deepest self is bunch of flowers at different stages of becoming open to bring fragrance and nectar within!
A journey inward is an experience of walking in the garden of life!
M.C.Mathew( text and photo)
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