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“The Face in the Stone”
The face in the stone is a mirror looking into you.You have gazed into the moving watersyou have seen the slow light, in the skyabove Lough Inagh; beneath you, streams have flowed,and rivers of earth have moved beneath your feet,but you have never looked into the immovabilityof stone like this, the way it holds you, gives younot a way forward but a doorway in, staunchesyour need to leave, becomes faithful by going nowhere,something that wants you to stay here and look back,be weathered by what comes to you, like the way you toohave travelled from so far away to be here, once reluctantand now as solid and as here and as willingto be touched as everything you have found.
From David Whyte: Essentials, ©David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
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