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David Whyte on The Art of Poetry and Prose

The One You Feed

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Awakening is Not Freedom From Feeling Things

Prose is about something, poetry is the thing itself, and theology is about direct seeing./nAwakening is not freedom from feeling things, it's freedom to feel things./nFeeling everything fully allows transformation./nDepression can be a form of stuckness and self-reinforcing./nDirect perception leads to the invitational nature of reality./nEnlightenment is a mutual acceptance of the invitation of being hospitable./nQuestioning how invitational one is to others is important./nThe doorway is the bridge between the spoken and unspoken, between our world and the hidden place of giving our gifts.

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