The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: David Whyte, Poet — Spacious Ease, Irish Koans, Writing in Delirium, and Revelations From a Yak Manger
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by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you
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