The time will come when, with elation  

you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror  

and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.  

You will love again the stranger who was your self. 

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart  

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you  

all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart…

—Derek Walcott from his poem, Love After Love

When the Heart Speaks:  

Meeting the Guru

Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian