{"id":505,"date":"2011-09-12T18:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingmindfullytoday.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2013-09-09T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:58:35","slug":"tides-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/extraordinary-reading\/tides-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tides of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tides of Your Life <\/em>by Judith Gass\u00a0was read to a yoga class I attended at Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts. My son had gifted me a weekend at this famous yoga center and we were each attending a class of our choice before meeting for dinner. The words to this poem impacted me deeply ~ beautiful and harsh. What was I waiting for? And yes, I was waiting for the world to come soliciting…to invite, in some imagined way, me to be all that I am, to live boldly and to follow my calling. Is life itself not enough of an invitation? I knew, as the lines of the poem were read aloud, that I must begin today, now, to live my life ~ and that putting off fully living, as if today is a rehearsal, is wasting beautiful moments and priceless opportunities.<\/p>\n

“Why are you waiting to begin your life
\nDo you think the world must care and come soliciting?
\nListen to the knocking at the door of your own heart
\nIt is faint because you have not answered
\nYou have fooled yourself with preparations
\nTime left laughing while you considered possibilities
\nWake up you have slept long enough
\nWake up tomorrow may be too late
\nWhen you finally dare open the door
\nYour life will begin arriving
\nCautiously at first unbelieving that the gate
\nSo long locked against the tide has finally been opened
\nThen with swells of neglected dreams
\nThen with waves of joyful revelation the sea will follow
\nYou will be swept by the full and magnificent tides of
\nyour own longing
\nThat no one else can give you
\nThat no one else can claim.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was years ago ~ yet this poem guides my life today. And each time I share it with a friend, client or colleague, they, too, are impacted. How could we not be? Don’t we each find ourselves “waiting” at times? And is the invitation to wake up not a powerful one? It is always time to listen to the knocking on the door of our own heart ~ and begin to come alive. What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was waiting for the world to come soliciting…to invite, in some imagined way, me to be all that I am, to live boldly and to follow my calling. Is life itself not enough of an invitation? I knew, as the lines of the poem Tides of Your Life by Judith Gass were read aloud, that I must begin today, now, to live my life – and that putting off fully living, as if today is a rehearsal, is wasting beautiful moments and priceless opportunities. <\/p>\n

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