Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
who could cross
a shimmering
bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come
to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop
what you are doing
right now,
and
to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,
questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,
questions
that have patiently
waited for you,
questions
that have no right
to go away.
--David Whyte
[Krista Tippett's Ted Talk on Living the Questions].
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