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Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
"A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.”
David Whyte • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
Humiliation is mostly something we try to avoid, but it is something more often, all for the best, in retrospect. There is a lovely root to the word, the Latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returned to the ground of our being. Any fancy ideas we have about ourselves are shriven away by the reality of
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You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.
David Whyte • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest but wholeheartedness”
David Whyte • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.
David Whyte • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
" Real, undying loyalty in work can never be legislated or coerced; it is based on a courageous vulnerability that invites others by our example to a frontier conversation whose outcome is yet in doubt."