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There is a poem I love, by Ollie O’Neill, called Everyone I Love is Capable of Dying: Everyone I love is capable of dying and I am in love with this fact, how unflinching it is, how lucky I am to be able to prepare for at least one abandonment. Nothing is sexier than the prospect of being left, and the dead do leaving so well. Love’s appeal is in i
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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
Sometimes: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Stunning Meditation on Walking into the Questions of Our Becoming
These boundaries, however, should always be tested to see if they are actually still real. It takes conscious acts by individuals to test these edges. DAVID WHYTE
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Go to the Limits of Your Longing
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated and read by Joanna Macy
Listen
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move i
How can a poem “want” something or have a life of its own? Can’t the poet write whatever she wants? Of course she can. But at some point, the poem is alive. Certain changes are no longer possible without starting from scratch. Other changes show up serendipitously, feel right, and are kept. Can we think about the story of our life in this way? Can
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