“I wanted to know Truth
So I stopped looking

I Opened my body
Until Truth found
Me

I wanted to know Love
So I stopped missing it’s
Absence

I Savored every texture
In the wilderness of this
Moment
Until finally Love revealed
Me

I wanted to know Power
So I stopped pushing my will
Onto reality

I Let Go from deep inside
Until the Power moved
Me

I wanted to know Passion
So I stopped reaching for
Perfection

I let my heart melt
Into the flame
Of Life’s longing
Until Passion became one with
Me

I wanted to know Creation
So I merged with the pulse
At the core of Existence

I wanted to know Innocence
So I Drank my own
Presence

I wanted to know God
So I dropped the arrow of My body
And finally remembered to
Receive

They told me waking up
Was a complicated affair

They told me to cut myself
Apart

Who would have thought that
Flesh and blood contained
The Mystery of Existence

Would would have thought
That the Elixir was
Inside me

They wrote all the books
And gave all the talks

I never knew my own
Body
Was
The Teacher”

~ Maya Luna, “Becoming The Chalice”