I am enjoying Roger Housden’s Ten Poems book series. Housden curates ten poems in each of these books and then discusses the poems. He gives historical context or artistic comments to help the poems come alive. In the book called Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again & Again, published by Harmony Books in 2007, he discusses “What to Remember When Waking” by David Whyte.
The poem is definitely a great reminder to not forget how wonderful our life on earth is and how powerful we are. In Standing in the Light® vernacular, the poem urges us to remember who we truly are and to create from that healed and sovereign energy. One stanza goes like this. “What you can plan is too small for you to live.” I believe he is stating that we plan from a more limited viewpoint, but he recommends that we create from the unlimited energy that we can access.
Here is another stanza that has the same energy that we hear from The Christ in Standing in the Light®. “To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.”
Finally, this stanza reminds me that we are creator and we volunteered to be part of this experiment.
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.
I will let you enjoy this poem in its entirety. It may give you courage to be bold and remember who you are.
Namaste. I AM LORI
Gratitude to Myriams-Fotos with Pixabay.com for the above image.
“What to Remember When Waking”
By David Whyte
In that first
hardly noticed
moment
in 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 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?