I read this beautiful piece when resting with David Whyte’s River Flow, and wanted to share it. For me it gives such a sense of the expanse of our world, our freedom, and the way we ourselves can constrain our energy and aliveness. What does it say to you?
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognise its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your home
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is to small for you.
David Whyte