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David Whyte: Being at the Frontier of Your Identity

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

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How to Get Out of a Faithless Place

If the motive of your voice there was one of utter boredom then probably it's a kind of defense. The person would have to get out of that themselves. It's very hard unless you were close in with them, you know, a parent or a sister or a brother and you knew they're a psychological weak point so that you could move them along a little bit. But if a person is saying I just don't feel it in a more desperate way then I would give them the same advice I would give like a writer. Take the first step, not the second, not the third, work with exactly what you're presented with, the nature of your own exile at the moment.

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