214: You Know When It's Time To Go

If we look patiently, we'll sometimes see that underneath the 'presenting surface' of our lives is something within us working away persistently, lovingly, courageously. That something - a kind of essential goodness - has often begun working with what we care most about even before we've consciously begun ourselves. What would it be to see and trust that essential goodness within us and within one another, and to give it a name - as David Whyte does in the luminous poem that's our source for this week's conversation?

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Here's our source for this week:

YOU KNOW WHEN ITS TIME TO GO

Even in the midst

of thinking

you’ll

never be ready

even when 

you feel 

you have never

deserved

that freedom

to go

even under

the comforting 

illusion

that  you 

never had 

a single speck

of faith

in what 

you want

you have 

already packed,

your silent

reluctance away,

lifted your ear 

to the morning 

birdsong

and before 

anyone 

can wake

you are 

already

out the door,

down the road

round the corner

and on your way.

…

Excerpt from

‘You Know When It’s Time to Go’

from ‘STILL POSSIBLE’ Poetry by David Whyte

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