Sometimes – David Whyte

  • Posted on December 8, 2009 at 5:59 pm

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SOMETIMES

 

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest

 breathing
like the ones
in the old stories

who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,

 you come
to a place
whose only task

 is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests 

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and

 to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,

questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,

questions
that have patiently
waited for you,

questions
that have no right
to go away.
 
~ David Whyte ~

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Before He Makes Each One – Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Posted on December 1, 2009 at 7:16 pm

 

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Before He Makes Each One
 

Before he makes each one
of us, God speaks.
Then, without speaking,
he takes each one
out of the darkness.
And these are the cloudy
words God speaks
before each of us begins:
“You have been sent out
by your senses.
Go to the farthest edge of desire,
and give me clothing:
burn like a great fire
so that the stretched-out shadows
of the things of the world
cover me completely.Let everything happen to you:
beauty and terror.
You must just go–
no feeling is the farthest you can go.
Don’t let yourself be separated from me.
The country called life is close.
By its seriousness,
you will know it.
Give me your hand.”
 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

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