​Reflections

Step Back and Consider
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When we get attached to particular perspectives, it’s easy to get stuck in old patterns. It’s always healthy to challenge old perspectives and open up the mind to new ones.

Whether or not you agree with any given post, you can notice the way you respond to what you’re reading psychologically, emotionally, physically or spiritually and explore the deeper possibilities that might emerge.

START CLOSE IN 
Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step you don't want to take. 
Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way of starting
the conversation. 
Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people's questions,
don't let them
smother something
simple. 
To find
another's voice
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes a
private ear
listening
to another. 
Start right now
take a small step
you can call your own
don't follow
someone else's
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don't mistake
that other
for your own.

Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step you don't want to take. 

~ David Whyte ~

(River Flow)