Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within.
-MARY Lou COOK
Today, we make peace with the past: with the bodies and faces we were born with and those that have evolved.
Today, we embrace the lines that stare back at us, the parts that sag in the middle or stick out where they shouldn't, the hair that never keeps a curl or never loses it.
We begin when we invoke the Tibetan poet and teacher Saraha's song of praise. "Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places. . . I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body."
It will take a bit of doing, learning to love all our personal pilgrimage places. However, before genuine love can flourish, we must finally accept ourselves exactly as we are today.
Not tomorrow or next week or when we lose twenty-five pounds. Remember, acceptance is acknowledging the reality of a situation: that we're heavier than we'd like to be,-for example, or that our complexion is ruddy or sallow, or that we've got gray streaks, or that leggings just don't work for us.
Most of us think of other women as beauties, never ourselves. But every woman was created by Spirit to be a genuine beauty. We learn how to reveal to the world our unique radiance only after we acknowledge it ourselves.
Today, take as your personal mantra: "I am what l am and what I am is wonderful."
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