We shape our self to fit this world

and by the world are shaped again.

The visible and the invisible

working together in common cause,

to produce the miraculous.

I am thinking of the way the intangible air

passed at speed round a shaped wing

easily holds our weight.

So may we, in this life trust to those elements

we have yet to see or imagine,

and look for the true shape of our own self,

by forming it well to the great 

intangibles about us.

  — David Whyte