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David Whyte on The Art of Poetry and Prose

The One You Feed

CHAPTER

The Parable of the Bad Wolf

i'd like to start off by asking you what that parable means to you in your life and in the work that you do. Well, i think the parable is just the beginning of an interesting nversation. You start off by identifying in one bad wolf on good wolf, but actually it's more a hierarchy of function. The bad wolf is really the strategic mind, when it's left to shape your identity and greed and fear. And it's the naming mind, bereft of the faculty of belonging, which is really the otherWolf. So i'd say the bad wolf is meant actually to be a good servant to the first wolf's desires. Then there isn't a

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