Category Archives: Poetry

Enough ~ David Whyte

 
Enough.  These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
~ David Whyte

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Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
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Love the Solitude ~ Rilke

Much that may one day be possible can already be prepared by the solitary individual, and built with his own hands which make fewer mistakes.  Therefore love your solitude and bear the pain of it without self-pity.  The distance you … Continue reading

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Humble Living – Rumi

 
Humble living does not diminish.  It fills.
Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
When a man makes up a story for his child,
he becomes a father and a child
together, listening.
~Rumi

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Knots of Our Own Making

How surely gravity’s law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing –
each stone, blossom, child –
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
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