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David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot unde
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Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
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And across my life of conversation, I have learned that wisdom and wholeness emerge in moments precisely like ours, though ours is writ large, where human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities in a creative tension and interplay, power and frailty, birth and death, pain and hope, mystery and conviction, brokenness and beauty, calm and fi... See more
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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
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Like any good conversation, that dynamism is only kept alive by a reciprocity of attentiveness. It is this dynamic exchange that enables us to remake ourselves and the world.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
"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
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* “The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into the inevitable natural disas... See more
thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com • WORDS: Friendship by David Whyte
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