Poetry From the On Being Gathering — David Whyte (Opening Night)
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Pilgrimage of Coleman
St. Coleman, who lived in the sixth century, AD, was not just a wild, contemplative virtuoso, meditational artist, you know. He also ran a very large monastery down in the plane of East Galway called Kilmakduach. So he would work, he would probably become exhausted, and then he would go up into the mountains to this place below a cliff,. And which had a thobber, which is a well. Your thobber is your blessed well. And your lobber is your bed. To me, whenever I go there, it's always like a representation of the human body. We have this shelter, we have this cr
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