David Whyte Quotes

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• There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are…
• 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…
• Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you…
• We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
• 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…
• Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it…
• What you plan is too small for you to live.
• Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
• Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
• I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
• The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears
• Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if…
• 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…
• To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
• To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
• It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the…
• Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
• The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
• Genius is becoming something you were all along.
• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

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