The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in… — David Whyte Art Copy Share Image
Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every… — David Whyte Atmosphere Copy Share Image
The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we… — David Whyte Contribution Copy Share Image
“FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness” — David Whyte Forgiveness Copy Share Image
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to… — David Whyte Anxious Copy Share Image
Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown. — David Whyte Casts Copy Share Image
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force… — David Whyte Art Copy Share Image
The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have. — David Whyte Communication Copy Share Image
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and,… — David Whyte Existence Copy Share Image
Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t… — David Whyte Firsts Copy Share Image
The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness. — David Whyte Antidote Copy Share Image
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned.… — David Whyte Abandoned Copy Share Image
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to… — David Whyte Asks Copy Share Image
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again — David Whyte Fit Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing… — David Whyte Accord Copy Share Image
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. — David Whyte Community Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. — David Whyte Faculty Copy Share Image
Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown. — David Whyte Growing Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. — David Whyte Communication Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a… — David Whyte Attention Copy Share Image
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. — David Whyte Arise Copy Share Image
