Finding your undercurrent

David Whyte, the poet and thinker, talks movingly about what it takes to detect the undercurrent of our lives, the slow, long-term direction of movement that is always there, whether we are aware of it or not. In the end, the conclusion he reaches is that we can only have a chance of finding our undercurrent when we take time out to stop splashing around in the direction we're pursuing and stop. Completely. Then calm our restless selves down. Wait. Listen. Smell the breeze.

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