! at David Whyte's "Ambition" facebook.com/photo.php?fbid
"Ambition ultimately withers all secrets in its glare before those secrets have had time to come to life from within and then thwarts the generosity and maturity that ripens the discourse of a lifetime’s dedication to a work"
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I also really enjoyed "Friendship," another essay in the same compilation ("Consolations"):
"A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them."
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The comments on ambition remind me also of in autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/bec
"You can’t keep your gaze tightly fixed on the outcome you want because it will lock your mind onto the strategies you currently have for meeting them, which by definition probably don’t work"
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Via Sam, yes.
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Another: "In silence, essence speaks to us of essence itself and asks for a kind of unilateral disarmament, our own essential nature slowly emerging as the defended periphery atomizes and falls apart. ->
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"As the busy edge dissolves we begin to join the conversation through the portal of a present unknowing, robust vulnerability, revealing in the way we listen, a different ear, a more perceptive eye...
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