![]() ![]() I was just doing work to get by, with no career to speak of. It was a beautiful time in my life, but aimless. In the early 2000s, I was living with my wife on the island of Maui. Finally dropping the masks we wear, we discover our true face, our “reflection.” Then, “for the first time,” we can speak in our own voice.ĭavid Whyte’s words hold a special place in my personal journey. To rediscover our own voice, our true voice which has been socialized back into the shadows of our awareness, we have to break an old agreement, a “promise.” We must decide to no longer identify with the roles and expectations set up for us. Living this way, we find our true face, our true reflection. When we settle into ourselves, when we start to actually live our own lives, embody our own lives, we not only begin to really experience life deeply for the first time, we start to tap into “the one life that waits / beyond all others.” He is saying that something powerful, even sacred, occurs when we stop contorting ourselves to reach for lives that are not our own. Too often we aren’t really present in our lives– I read this poem by David Whyte as a meditation on the alienation most of us feel at one time or another in our own lives. ![]() Used by permission of the author and Many Rivers Press ( All rights reserved. ![]() “All the True Vows” from The House of Belonging by David Whyte.Ĭopyright © 1997, 2004 by David Whyte. ![]()
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