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Jun 18, 2023

"What you can plan is too small for you to live.

What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep." --David Whyte

David Whyte: On Seeking Language Large Enough

"It has ever and always been true, David Whyte reminds us, that so much of human experience is a conversation between loss and celebration. This conversational nature of reality -- indeed, this drama of vitality -- is something we have all been shown, willing or unwilling, in these years. Many have turned to David Whyte for his gorgeous, life-giving poetry and his wisdom at the interplay of theology, psychology, and leadership -- his insistence on the power of a beautiful question and of everyday words amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life. The notion of "frontier"-- inner frontiers, outer frontiers -- weaves through this hour. We surface this as a companion for the frontiers we are all on just by virtue of being alive in this time."