Haha, exactly, exactly. But if it speaks to you, it speaks to your ear. So i want to go back to this idea of the three marriages for a second. Say a little more about anxiety and work in with it skilfully. Yes, anxiety is being far from home. Anxiety is feeling distance and exile without feeling it fully enough to actually be on your way back home through feeling it. And a i have this piece called what yo remember when waking? It looks at the way when you emerge from this imaginative and physiological transfiguration called sleep. There's a small opening into the day that closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too
David Whyte is a poet and author who also leads the Many Rivers Organization and Invitas, the Institute for Conversational Leadership, which he founded in 2014. David is the author of many poetry collection and prose books, including his newest book, Still Possible
In this episode, Eric and David discuss several of David’s beautiful poems from his latest collection, as well as some of his older work.
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David Whyte and I Discuss The Art of Poetry and Prose and…
- His book, Still Possible
- His poem, Your Prayer
- The metaphor of a doorway, and how it can be a barrier or an opening in your life
- Beautiful forgetting and how we can get out of and then into ourselves
- How depression is a form of stuckness
- Asking yourself how invitational you are to the people in your life
- His book, The Three Marriages
- How poetry is the art of saying things you didn’t know you knew
- His poem, The Road to Santiago
- How our reluctances are doorways to connection to other people
- Anxiety and how it is a kind of staticness
- How not knowing is great intimacy
- The importance of silence and rest
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