You Darkness

July 28, 2019 Maartje Stroeken

“You darkness from which I come,

I love you more than all the fires

that fence out the world,

for the fire makes a circle

for everyone

so that no one sees you anymore.

But darkness holds it all:

the shape and the flame,

the animal and myself,

how it holds them,

all powers, all sight —

and it is possible: its great strength

is breaking into my body.

I have faith in the night.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by David Whyte

Silent Day, July 28, 2019, I guided for I AM SeeTrue Mindfulness Maastricht.
*With thanks for sharing to Adyashanti at the 5 Night Silent Retreat in Zeist, August 2015.