It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods, I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned, If you can know despair or see it in others. I want to know If you are prepared to iive in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand. I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing. I want to know il you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.
David Whyte from FIRE IN THE EARTH © 1992 Many Rivers Press
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