Start Close In
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The title is borrowed from a poem by David Whyte called “Start Close In”. start: stɑːt/ Definition:
close: kləʊs/ Definition:
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The poem "Start Close In" by David Whyte is painted into the background and in the final layer, going to the centre of the labyrinth and out again.
It is a great reminder to start from where I am, to find my own voice, ask my own questions, listen to my own voice and start with the step that I am too scared to take.
It is a great reminder to start from where I am, to find my own voice, ask my own questions, listen to my own voice and start with the step that I am too scared to take.
Start Close In - by David Whyte
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 to begin
the conversation.
Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people’s questions,
don’t let them
smother something
simple.
To hear
another’s voice,
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes an
intimate
private ear
that can
really listen
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.
A David Whyte poem from
River Flow: New & Selected Poems
Many Rivers Press
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Only after reading up on the symbolism of the shapes, I learned that Dr. Carl Jung viewed the circle as a geometric archetype of the psyche and when it is combined with a square (archetypal of the body), as in the Da Vinci drawing of the Vitruvian Man, it illustrates the balance between the psyche and the body. |
THEMES
Self-awareness, purpose, wholeness, balance.