Friday, May 11, 2012

Love After Love


I thought this prayer was perfect for the teachings of Self Love and Relationships


The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome and say, sit here.  Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was yourself.  Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart.   Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, and the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.  Sit.  Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott, Collected Poems 1948-1984,  New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986
I would like to honor Madeline Ebelini of www.IntegrativeMindfulness.net for sharing this with me to be able to share with all of you.

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