Dr. MaryAnn Iyer, a friend of the Center, recently composed this poem that beautifully names the fundamental challenge faced by everyone on the spiritual journey.
We want to have arrived.
We want to be free
of grief and fear,
No longer pummeled
by waves of anger.
Never realizing.
This is it.
This is the task at hand.
The ever present invitation
to remember
to turn our faces and open our hearts
to the Divine.
Many thanks to MaryAnn Iyer for her permission to reproduce this work. Find out more about MaryAnn — holistic physician, writer, teacher, and mind-body connection visionary — at her website. (credit for hiker in woods image: Vladislav Babienko on Unsplash)