WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING
In that first
hardly noticed
moment
to which you wake,
coming back
to this life
from the other
more secret,
moveable
and frighteningly
honest
world
where everything
began,
there is a small
opening
into the new day
which closes
the moment
you begin
your plans.
What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.
What you can live
wholeheartedly
will make plans
enough
for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.
To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.
To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.
You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged.
Now, looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain
presence
of everything
that can be,
what urgency
calls you to your
one love?
What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread
its branches
against a future sky?
Is it waiting
in the fertile sea?
In the trees
beyond the house?
In the life
you can imagine
for yourself?
In the open
and lovely
white page
on the waiting desk?
~ David Whyte ~
(The House of Belonging)
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(The House of Belonging)
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Molly,
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth.... I am really enjoying this.... may I call it a "dance"?.... that we seem to be doing with the back and forth sharing of these poems of the heart.... it's nice to have that sort of sharing, in the moment, without thought of any thing else beyond just "this"....
In fact, I just shared this particular poem with a high school friend I just came back in contact with, learning in the process that he has been in a battle with a cancer working it's way to a finality....
This is the healing power of words, of communing together within the deepest meaning we all sense.... together. For it cannot be felt quite as deeply when we feel pulled apart and separate.
When spiritual traditions call this "world" an illusion, I think they are meaning that "this apparent separateness" IS the illusion.
I sense that you might agree...
Thanks for dancing....
Blessings,
Bruce
Yes, Bruce, I do agree. Thanks, as always, for your comments. Peace & blessings to you... Molly
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