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David Whyte on The Art of Poetry and Prose
The One You Feed
The Parable of the Bad Wolf
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 bad wolf and a good wolf. You get earrangement of things. That's my experience of it. We often name things in order to
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