Playspace: May 2008
Allow
By Danna Faulds from Go In and In: Poems from the heart of Yoga
There is no controlling life.
Try corralling a lightning bolt,
Containing a tornado.
Dam a stream, and it will create a new channel.
Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet.
Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground.
The only safety lies in letting it all in -
The wild with the weak; fear, fantasies, failures and success.
When loss rips off the doors of the heart,
Or sadness veils your visions with despair,
Practice becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your known way of being,
The whole world is revealed to your new eyes.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws
him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
–Hasidic saying