True Nature
Wilderness Therapy
Mindfulness
Today’s mindfulness moment features Heather, True Nature Wilderness Therapy founder, reading a poem by David Whyte.
The World Was
Made to be free in
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.
It's 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.
The dark will be your home
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness
and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
… ‘Sweet Darkness’
From ‘The House of Belonging’
Poems by David Whyte
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone,
no part of the world can find you.
It's 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.
The dark will be your home
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness
and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
… ‘Sweet Darkness’
From ‘The House of Belonging’
Poems by David Whyte
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
Heather Hendrie
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