David Wagoner: LOST
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31968
David Whyte on "Lost" by David Wagoner
Thinking Allowed with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove
1994? (help me date this)
9m
https://youtu.be/Vlz3mf7jxkc?t=148
"How do you know that you're on your path? Because it disappears, that's how you know. How do you know that you're really doing something radical? Because you can't see where you're going."
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