Here's more Stardust! (see my Stardust blogs if you missed them.)
Poet David Whyte really gets it, so I feel like he gets me, too!
Great art does that for us...https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=827089303983741&set=a.213444315348246.68208.213407562018588&type=1&theater
If we just look around us, we have so much to be delighted about, that our hearts overflow...
But not if we're dissociated. Trauma does that for us.
Then we need healing first to feel all of it, 'cos we might not feel any of it... I couldn’t really feel it for most of my life until I got “that Peter Levine book” and cracked my developmental trauma...
EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU
by David Whyte
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
From RIVER FLOW: New and Selected Poems & EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press PHOTO © David Whyte 2014 : Playing Elgar for Robin
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