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David Whyte: Being at the Frontier of Your Identity

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

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The Importance of Taking the First Step

In the early parts of the recording, I work a lot with making a friend of the unknown and building a relationship with what cannot be spoken. And an emerging of a kernel which is not yet fully known inside you. It's a center which is as much unknown to you as the outer world, in many ways, is a mystery to you too. The interesting dynamic is that sometimes you only understand your conversation through exile and feeling really far away from yourself and from your world. All you've got to do actually is enunciate the exact nature of your exile. That will open up the door to your conversation because there's no one else in the world that feels exiled in the way you

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