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fish in a pool
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.
from Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes ‘What the hell is water?’”15 We need to become aware of our immersions. “T
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