The Direction of Intention

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Self-love is still on the front burner of my mind.

My last post brought a memory and a poem: a winter weekend retreat in Lake Tahoe, a gathering of special people investigating ways that we might bring our gifts together in some form or another: to offer workshops or retreats or…. Early on our conversations strayed from the form of what we might offer to who we were and what we believed and desired to do in the world. As I look back now I see how dissatisfied we all were with the work we were doing; we’d each compromised something essential in our selves and were looking for ways to get back to the center.

Early one morning Sam emerged from his room and offered a poem that he’d just penned:

Beloved by Sam Magill

First waking in rumpled hair
having not adorned myself
for public viewing
or put on my beauty masks –
will I allow myself to be
called Beloved?

This is a poem about self-love. Without my public mask, my wall of respect and my list of achievements, will I allow myself to be called Beloved? In the private space of my life, when no one is looking and I am not performing myself for others, will I allow myself to be called Beloved?

It is a given when you first enter this earth – there is no separation. At what point did being the Beloved become dependent shoe size, other’s ideas of you, university acceptance, bank account, and car choice? What would need to change for you to re-recognize your self as unique in the universe?

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