Inside of You and Far Beyond You

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INSIDE YOU AND FAR BEYOND YOU The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding then revealing the way you should take, the road dropping away from you as if leaving you to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up, when you thought you would fall - and the way forward always in the end, the way that you came, the way that you followed, the way that carried you into your future, that brought you to this place, no matter that it sometimes had to take your promise from you, no matter that it always had to break your heart along the way: the sense of having walked from far inside yourself out into the revelation, to have risked yourself for something that seemed to stand both inside you and far beyond you, and that called you back in the end to the only road you could follow...

Excerpt from “Santiago” From PILGRIM: Poems by David Whyte ©2012 David Whyte

Cresting the Rise PHOTO © David Whyte

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