Perhaps we would like to take some time to look back on the year 2011 to notice our challenges, our joys, and how we have grown as a person in our bodies, in our work, in our relationships, in our contributions to the greater good of this world. This poem revealed itself in a timely fashion to be shared in this morning's yoga class:
Foundations Stones
Here
is my past--
what I've been proud of,
and what I've pushed away.
Today I
see how each piece
was needed, not a single
step wasted on the way.
Like a stone wall,
every rock resting
on what came before-
no stone can be
suspended in mid-air.
Foundation laid by every
act and omission,
each decision, even
those the mind would
label "big mistake".
These
things I thought
were sins, these are as
necessary as successes,
each
one resting on the
surface of the last, stone
upon stone, the fit
particular, complete,
the rough, uneven
face of these rocks
makes
surprising,
satisfying patterns
in the sunlight.
pg. 26, Go In and In: Poems from the Heart of Yoga
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