Inspiration Through Words

Sweet Darkness by David Whyte

When your eyes are tired

the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

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 womb
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.

- Rumi

Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distances.

That’s not for human beings.

Move within,
but don’t move the way fear makes you move.

Walk to the well.

Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
circling what they love.

Whatever circles, comes from the center.

- Rumi

Be a lamp

or a lifeboat

or a ladder.

Help someone's soul heal.

Walk out of your house like a shepard.