The Monastic Life as Poetry

Somehow, though I’m sure that it is not what he intended, poet David Whyte has captured the heart of the monastic life in his piece titled “Santiago.”

…to have risked yourself for something that seemed to stand both inside you and far beyond you, that called you back to the only road in the end you could follow, walking as you did, in your rags of love and speaking in the voice that by night became a prayer for safe arrival…