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David Whyte on The Art of Poetry and Prose
The One You Feed
A Troubled Guest on the Dark Earth
A troubled guest is someone who doesn't know how to receive the hospitality of the world. There's nothing worse than a troubled guest, some one you invite to dinner or t the house and they don't know where to put themselves. We often be like that in lifeand so there's a necessary shyness in a proper guest. To become human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. You are not an accident amidst other accidents. So this starts to address that anxiety. The ability not to be a troubled guest on the surf, to go to an untroubled place inside yourself from which you can look at your troubles and anxieties and difficulties.
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