"In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,

coming back to this life from the other more secret,

moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began,

there is a small opening into the day which closes the moment you begin your plans.

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.

To be human is to become visible

while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others

To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

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.

Now, looking though the slanting light of the morning window
toward the mountain presence of everything that can be,
what urgency calls you to your one love?

What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread it’s branches against a future sky?

Is it waiting in the fertile sea? In the trees beyond the house?

In the life you can imagine for yourself?

In the open and lovely white page on the waiting desk?"

David Whyte