David Whyte Quotes

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• To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only…
• To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through…
• To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything…
• To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at…
• Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.
• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking…
• To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and…
• It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely,…
• Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
• 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…
• Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
• Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.
• There is no house like the house of belonging.
• and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not…
• Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
• 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…
• The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having…
• Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.
• The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

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