“The temptation is to take the second or third step, not the first, to ignore the invitation into the center of our own body, into our grief, to attempt to finesse the grief and the absolutely necessary understanding at the core of the pattern, to forego the radical and almost miraculous simplification into which we are being invited. Start close in.”
–David Whyte, Essentials (Many Rivers Press, 2020), p. 15
