Invitation to BE

"...Making ourselves visible 

arranges for a different kind 

of disappearance 

 into the work, the task, the audience, 

the life that opens up, where the fearful one 

who first dreamt 

is burned away by anticipation 

and a living contact with a future 

we might want to call our own…

making ourselves visible enables us 

firstly to be found 

and then invited in, 

by the world we desire..."   

 David Whyte 

 

Adapted from
Crossing the Unknown Sea:
Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity.
Riverhead © David Whyte