{"id":3965,"date":"2019-01-14T18:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T23:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2019-01-14T18:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T23:54:03","slug":"sweet-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2019\/01\/sweet-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague recently sent me\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/blog\/sweet-darkness\/\">this poem,<\/a> by David Whyte, as a way of encouraging a new perspective. It helped.<\/p>\n<pre>When your eyes are tired\n the world is tired also.\n\nWhen your vision has gone,\n no part of the world can find you.\n\nTime to go into the dark\n where the night has eyes\n to recognize its own.\n\nThere you can be sure\n you are not beyond love.\n\nThe dark will be your home\n tonight.\n\nThe night will give you a horizon\n further than you can see.\n\nYou must learn one thing.\n The world was made to be free in.\n\nGive up all the other worlds\n except the one to which you belong.\n\nSometimes it takes darkness and the sweet\n confinement of your aloneness\n to learn\n\nanything or anyone\n that does not bring you alive\n\nis too small for you.<\/pre>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sweet Darkness&#8221; by David Whyte by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onbeing\/sweet-darkness-by-david-whyte\">On Being Studios<\/a> is licensed under a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons License<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague recently sent me\u00a0this poem, by David Whyte, as a way of encouraging a new perspective. It helped. When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[219,108],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-11X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}