“Ambition,” by David Whyte


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“Ambition is frozen desire, the current of a vocational life immobilized and over concretized to set, unforgiving goals. Ambition abstracts us from the underlying elemental nature of the creative conversation while providing us the cover of a target that has become false through over description, over familiarity or too much easy understanding…”

— David Whyte
from Readers’ Circle Essay, “Ambition”
©2011 David Whyte

My minister shared that one. Speaks to me.

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