Poetry From the On Being Gathering — David Whyte (Opening Night)
On Being with Krista Tippett
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How to Be the Ancestor of Your Future Happiness
Live in this place as you were meant to. And then surprised by your abilities become the ancestor of it all. The quiet, robust and blessed saint that your future happiness will always remember. Make a nesting now. A place to which the birds can come. Think of Kevin's prayerful palm holding the blackbird's egg. Be the one looking out from this place who warms interior forms into light. Then bring in from those horizons all discordant elements that seek a home. See with every turning day how each season wants to make a child of you again. Refuse to talk even to yourself. Stay in this place until the current of the story is strong enough to float you
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