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[Unedited] David Whyte with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Human Genius Is the Meeting Between Inheritance and Horizon

In the ancient world, genius was not so much used about individual people. It was used about places, and almost always with the word loci. Human genius lies in the geography of the and its conversation with the world. And i think it's a very merciful thing to think of human beings in the same way as your genius is just the way everything has met in you. You know, we all live out our destiny no matter what we do. But you can live out that conversation at the level of frustration and distance and exile,. if never actually coming to fruition with it.

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