Inspiration

Forgiveness by Lalita Noronha

Take me back

to the beginning.

Wrap a peace which falls

like sheer rain

between the folds of petals,

under blades of grass,

between unanswered questions,

underneath the doubt,

the pain, ripe and raw,

pungent as memory,

sweet as forgiveness.

Birdwings

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror

up to where you are bravely working.

Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,

here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.

If it were always a fist or always stretched open,

you would be paralyzed.

Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,

the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated

as birdwings.

by Rumi

"There are few human beings who receive truth, complete and

staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it

fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive

developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

- Anais Nin

Japanese Zen koan:

“Show me your original face before your parents were born.”

Sayun Scotton, MA, MFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Therapy and Counseling Downtown Los Angeles | Pasadena

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