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David Whyte Quotes
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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it (David Whyte Quotes)
There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there. (David Whyte Quotes)
The courageous conversation is the one you don’t want to have (David Whyte Quotes)
There is no house like the house of belonging (David Whyte Quotes)
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong (David Whyte Quotes)
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance (David Whyte Quotes)
Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss (David Whyte Quotes)
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again (David Whyte Quotes)
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings (David Whyte Quotes)
What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep (David Whyte Quotes)
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences (David Whyte Quotes)
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone (David Whyte Quotes)
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves (David Whyte Quotes)
We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own (David Whyte Quotes)
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity (David Whyte Quotes)
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness (David Whyte Quotes)
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul’s break for freedom (David Whyte Quotes)
Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you (David Whyte Quotes)
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation (David Whyte Quotes)
Genius is becoming something you were all along (David Whyte Quotes)
The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality (David Whyte Quotes)
The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears (David Whyte Quotes)
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born (David Whyte Quotes)
What you plan is too small for you to live (David Whyte Quotes)
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking (David Whyte Quotes)
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering (David Whyte Quotes)
Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take (David Whyte Quotes)
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you (David Whyte Quotes)
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want (David Whyte Quotes)
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too (David Whyte Quotes)
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