POETRY PAGE
RENEWAL

To meet a person today with our opinion of yesterday
is to expect them to act as they did before
However different they may be we overlook the change
and tend to react guided by our memories.
To judge another through the eyes of the past deprives them
of the freedom to change and to grow in our interatction.
To allow another to grow is to allow ourselves to grow.
To judge another is to feel judged.
To practice rejection is to project rejection and feel rejected.
To look at others with newness in our eyes, is to feel renewed.
The way to be with others is to be wholly with thme as they are in the moment.

LOVE RETURNS TO ITS SOURCE

Love begins by either giving or receiving; we can start at either end.
Love continues to grow when we willingly give after we have received,
Or willingly receive after we have given.
The energy of love completes the circuit.
Love returns to it's Source.
We seek love and fear love at the very same time.
We are afraid to receive the love of other people, since we know
our turn will come to give love in return.
Until we give, we cannot receive.
As we give spontaneously, we are free to receive.
Giving designed to control is not real giving.
Such giving is not from love and lacks the sweetness of love.
As we learn to freely give all we seek from others
without wanting any return
we find we are served by serving.
Whoever helps others receives help from God.

Yogi Amrit Desai
(Excerpted from Quest Magazine 1981-1982)