Gaze No More in the Bitter Glass ...

Algunas veces pienso que distinto sería todo si consiguieramos desprendernos de todos los prejuicios sociales que nos han inculcado desde pequeños ... ¿Saldría entonces toda el amor que llevamos dentro como un torrente? ¿Nos convertiriamos en el niño que siempre fuimos y al que siempre hicimos callar? Tal vez la paz en el mundo que tanto ansiamos empieza a construirse en nuestro interior, si fueramos capaces de mirarnos con los ojos de un niño ... sin guardar rencores absurdos, tan solo querernos sin poner condiciones, sin recelos. Criticando a los demás solo conseguimos empozoñar más nuestra mente. Juzgándonos a nosotros mismos herimos profundamente a nuestro niño interior. Valoremos todo lo positivo que hay dentro de nosotros mismos y en las personas que nos rodean y estaremos contribuyendo a construir un mundo mejor.

Recomiendo leer el libro Los Cuatro Acuerdos de Juan Miguel Ruiz

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart

The holy tree is growing there;

From joy the holy branches start

And all the trembling flowers they bear.

The changing colours of its fruit

Have dowered the stars with merry light;

The surety of its hidden root

Has planted quiet in the night;

The shaking of its leafy head

Has given the waves their melody.

And made my lips and music wed,

Murmuring a wizard song for thee,

There the Loves a circle go,

The flaming circle of our days,

Gyring, spiring to and fro

In those great ignorant leafy ways;

Remembering all that shaken hair

And how the winged sandals dart

Thine eyes grow full of tender care;

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.

Gaze no more in the bitter glass

The demons, with their subtle guile,

Lift up before us when they pass,

Or only gaze a little while;

For there a fatal image grows

That the stormy night receives,

Roots half hidden under snows,

Broken boughs and blackened leaves.

For all things turn to bareness

In the dim glass the demons hold,

The glass of outer weariness,

Made when God slept in times of old.

There, through the broken branches, go

The ravens of unresting thought;

Flying, crying, to and fro,

Cruel claw and hungry throat,

Or else they stand and sniff the wind,

And shake their ragged wings: alas!

Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:

Gaze no more in the bitter glass.

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the winged sandals dart,
Thine eyes grow full of tender care;
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.

Music by Loreena McKennitt.
Words by William Butler Yeats