Mindful Monday’s January 18, 2021

Opening to the Good, True, and Beautiful

I apologize for the glitch in the link to my meditation last week. Hopefully you were able to open the YouTube link to the meditation by Adrien that I had referenced and that Lisa provided.  It is a light and lovely practice on Self Love, one worth repeating again and again.

Today, my friends, with so very much going on in our world and more critically, our country, I invite you to open your heart to yourself and with a sense of kindness and care, read this poem by Maya Angelou.  Take in the words of this beautiful poem and consider this my wish for you.  Perhaps reading this poem before today’s meditation practice will help you put down any worries or concerns that you came to your practice with today, or concerns that are on your mind or in your heart going forward into your day, the tasks and to do’s or even the boredom.  I invite you to put it all down right now as best you can and experiment with trusting what is good true and beautiful in this world and in yourself.

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 by Maya Angelou

Into a world which needed you
My wish for you
Is that you continue

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To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world
With your acts of kindness

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To allow humor to lighten the burden
of your tender heart

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In a society dark with cruelty
To let the people hear the grandeur
Of God in the peals of your laughter

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To let your eloquence
Elevate the people to heights
They had only imagined

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To remind the people that
Each is as good as the other
And that no one is beneath
Nor above you

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To remember your own young years
And look with favor upon the lost
And the least and the lonely

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To put the mantel of your protection
Around the bodies of
The young and defenseless

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To take the hand of the despised
And diseased and walk proudly with them
In the high street
Some might see you and
Be encouraged to do likewise

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To plant a public kiss of concern
On the cheek of the sick
And the aged and infirm
And count that as a
Natural action to be expected

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To let gratitude be the pillow
Upon which you kneel to
Say your nightly prayer
And let faith be the bridge
You build to overcome evil
And welcome good

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To ignore no vision
Which comes to enlarge your range
And increase your spirit

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To dare to love deeply
And risk everything
For the good thing

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To float
Happily in the sea of infinite substance
Which set aside riches for you
Before you had a name

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And by doing so
You and your work
Will be able to continue
Eternally

(poem written by Maya Angelou in 2016 for Oprah)

Week 2 2021 Meditation: Opening to the Good, True and Beautiful (click link)