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my body a shoreline and yours the ocean,
David Whyte • The Sea in You: Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love
It seems that to find the real path we have to go off the path we are now on, even for an instant, and earn the privilege of losing our way.
David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
The morning before he died in the final year of his seventies, he drafted a poem containing these lines:
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will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down
just the way it was. “You don’t have to
prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand
out in the sun again.
Maria Popova • Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective
He sees people in such a manner that they crave nearness to him.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually, the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their indi
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