What
to Remember When Waking
What
to Remember When Waking
David Whyte
CD's AUD100.00
I am not sure how to start writing
about this audio program as it has stirred me
each time I listen.
On CD4 David explains that when
he was an apprentice of poetry he practiced
with different voice tones and modulation. One
of the surprises that came to him was how the
body reacted to variations of style. When I
heard those words it clicked because that was
the experience I was having - a full body experience.
The program is based around the poem - What
to Remember When Waking As he explores the poem
he goes off into stories that relate to the
central meaning - engaging in the great conversation
that defines your life. I find I am unable to
do justice to the content in a review context
yet I loved listening and would find time stopping
as I became immersed in the unfolding story.
Maybe the poem explains
it best....
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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