This came on the Daily Good:
Love After Love
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 youall your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
I know this poem from listening to David Whyte read it on one of the many CD’s I have by him. I know the second quote from Sharon Salzberg’s CD on Lovingkindness.
Daily Good also quoted Buddha: You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.