We Are Here

David Whyte, my poet extraordinaire, often speaks my heart. Even as Steve and I tramp around rather aimlessly, we do spend time each morning with focused attention. How can we be of service? How do we support one another’s growth and happiness. How do we practice kindness. What kind of courage do we need at this time? How can we laugh more and stress less?

A few minutes ago I randomly came across these words (haha. as if I believe these gifts are random 😜) from David Whyte. I can’t say it better. But I can truly appreciate his clarity and wisdom:

WE ARE HERE by David Whyte

“We are here essentially, to risk ourselves in the world. We are a form of invitation to others and to otherness, we are meant to hazard ourselves for the right thing, for the right woman or the right man, for a son or a daughter, for the right work or for a gift given against all the odds. And in all this continual risking the most profound courage may be found in the greatest risk and the greatest vulnerability, and perhaps, the greatest prize of all, the simple willingness to allow ourselves to be happy along the way …”

OH, but there is more……

“It is both fascinating and rewarding to approach happiness as a core practice and a choice: to rest deeply and calmly, even amidst the necessary losses of an individual human life, and find already lying within us, not a naive, forced generation of false positivity, but an attentive sense of continued extraordinary surprise at the preposterous, gifted, overwhelming and astonishing nature of every day existence”.  David Whyte

May the force be with you!

Or as David says….

May you find continued extraordinary surprise at the preposterous, gifted, overwhelming and astonishing nature of everyday existence 🦋