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 your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast your life.
I just had to share this poem by Derek Walcott that was shared with me during my Mindfulness in Education workshop that I attended this past weekend. It reminds me that our path to integrative, whole health begins with sitting...yes!! not necessarily running 5 miles in record time (although that could be part of it for you), but sitting!
Sitting, breathing, opening the door to your self...listening to the answers about your self that only you know. Imagine what is there!
