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)
