“… Silences in which you can actually breathe again, and breathe in a way in which your body is not tense or set against the world — you know? A silence in which there’s a sense of spaciousness and of discovery …
“There’s a way in which we’ve been treating ourselves as some kind of recalcitrant animal that needs to be harried into its experience …
“Every morning when you wake up you should really ask yourself, and remind yourself, what it is that you were born in this world for.”
– David Whyte
Image of ancient Nordic bronze statue; artist unknown
Darrell Calkins 
The link between silence and the remembering of deeper reasons for being, brought a friend and I back to this article.
“Breathe in a way in which your body is not tense or set against the world — you know?”
From the beginning, the mood is set within an atmosphere, familiar from some of our own gatherings, of warm, insightful conversation.
Which carefully makes space for “There’s a way in which we’ve been treating ourselves as some kind of recalcitrant animal that needs to be harried into its experience…”
I don’t remember coming across a more delightful way to realize, if I really paid attention to the words and tonality, the unnecessary harshness of some of the things I say to myself at times.
Emphasized again through:
“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.”
And one last thing out of a poem that seems to expand out of the page, into somewhat recognizable subtle realms and further into a space we’ve probably all had a brief alluring taste of only to just as quickly forgot about it. Yet something remains, a physical, emotional and mental ease that once remembered is unmistakable:
“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.”
What worlds await for us, if someone can truly feel this and have the capacity to send it out with such enchanting eloquence. All of it within reach when, for just a moment, I could let go of the self torturing and sink a little deeper into the silences…
https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/what-to-remember-when-waking-david-whyte/