The Knight

‘The Knight’ so beautifully illustrates what happens when we guide people down the path of Waking The Wild… they’re liberated from compression, allowing them to stretch their limbs and hear their full voices.

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The Knight

— Rilke

The knight rides forth in coal-black steel

into the teeming world.

Outside his armor everything is there: sunlight and valley,

friend and foe and feast,

May, maiden, forest and grail,

and God himself in a thousand forms

to be found along every road.

But inside the armor darkly enclosing him

crouches death. And the thought comes

and comes again:

When will the blade

pierce this iron sheath,

the undeserved and liberating blade

that will fetch me from my hiding place

where I’ve been so long compressed —

so that, at last, I may stretch my limbs

and hear my full voice.

Coming up in 2021 there will be more ways that you can walk the path of Waking The Wild. It’s going to be an epic year of Soul, Myth & Magic if we have anything to do with it! To find out more go to: Go deeper – Primal Happiness –

Art: Alexander Jawfox, Unsplash

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