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David Whyte
It was the idea of a “pathless path,” something I found in David Whyte’s book The Three Marriages. To Whyte, a pathless path is a paradox: “we cannot even see it is there, and we do not recognize it.”1 To me, the pathless path was a mantra to reassure myself I would be okay. After spending the first 32 years of my life always having a plan, this k
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
By opening yourself to the cold nasty current of disintegration and discouragement that runs six inches beneath the surface of existence, you make yourself available to that other, deeper current: the one that warms and heartens and shapes and sustains. It's right there. It knows who you are. And on the far side of despair, it will reach for you.
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Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
onbeing.orgI guess if we’re talking about joy, writing, and being a fully rendered person in the world, my main sources of liveliness are so human and obvious they might seem facile: 1) loving the people I love with full throttle abandon – my guy, our kids, my mom and dad, our gaggle of brothers, my army of girlfriends. So that’s advice, maybe: make as many g... See more