a poem from a dear friend and teacher, perhaps something to read when contemplating resolutions and the like. happy new year.

Enlightenment

Forget about enlightenment.

Sit down wherever you are
and listen to the wind singing
in your veins.

Feel the love, the longing and
the fear in your bones.

Open your heart to who you
are right now, not who you'd
like to be. Not the saint you're
striving to become, but the
being right there before you,
inside you, around you.

All of you is holy.

You're already more and less
than whatever you can know.

Breath out, look in, let go.

-John Welwood

thanks, deirdre!