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WORDS: Friendship by David Whyte
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 armoured personalities run into the inevitable natural disaste
... See moreRoger's Bacon • Friendship Forever
If you’ve been lucky enough to have had a deep relationship with another human being, you know what pure attention and witness feel like. The poet David Whyte said that "the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen b
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* “Like a marriage, the best friendships require investment, compromise, and sacrifice. By creating shared alignment, trust, and companionship, strong friendships nourish the soul and sharpen the mind.”
David Perell • The Fruits of Friendship - David Perell
Friendship is powerful. The strength of its bond has the ability to get past everything that seems to be important and find the things that are truly important. Those things are never external. They always deal with the spirit. They are shared values and goals. Friendship is about who you truly are, not who you appear to be.
Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
Writer C. Raymond Beran on friendship: "What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been decla
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