That difficult, delicate, triumphal pivot from self-limitation to self-liberation in the most vulnerable-making of human undertakings - love - is what poet and philosopher David Whyte, who thinks deeply about these questions of courage and love, maps out in his stunning poem “The Truelove,” found in his book The Sea in You: Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love ( public library) and read here, by David’s kind assent to my invitation, in his sonorous Irish-tinted English voice, in his singular style of echoing lines to let them reverberate more richly: The more vulnerable-making the endeavor, the more reflexive the limitation and the more redemptive the liberation.
Bruce Lee knew this when he admonished that “you will never get any more out of life than you expect,” James Baldwin knew it when he admonished that “you’ve got to tell the world how to treat you if the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble,” and Viktor Frankl embodied this in his impassioned insistence on saying “yes” to life.
The stories we tell ourselves about what we are worthy or unworthy of - from the small luxuries of naps and watermelon to the grandest luxury of a passionate creative calling or a large and possible love - are the stories that shape our lives. Tickets available at things limit us more profoundly than our own beliefs about what we deserve, and few things liberate us more powerfully than daring to broaden our locus of possibility and self-permission for happiness.
“ The Teacher” will be featured in this signature collection of personal stories and folk tales to touch the heart, speak to the soul, and tickle the funny bone. Join me to explore love in all its forms in my upcoming debut SOLO storytelling performance “Legacy of Love.” Friday, August 25th, 2017, 7pm-8:30pm. Upcoming Storytelling Performance: “Legacy of Love” Loving fiercely is one of the categories that I explore in my upcoming performance. He provides the roadmap to facing the challenge of finding the courage to love … and love fiercely. Read the full poem at the end of this post. Later in the poem, he describes the transition to risking the vulnerability of love. My poem describes the the receiving end of that love, but David Whyte describes the giving of that fierce love.
I can’t remember if I had read his poem before I wrote mine, but the themes are universal. and immediately captivate me because of my own poem, Loving Fiercely. The above words open David Whyte’s poem, TRUELOVE. The poet and philosopher, David Whyte, captures the unseen territory in our lives with the inspiring landscapes of his words.
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