If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do… — David Whyte Ifs Copy Share Image
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. — David Whyte Identity Copy Share Image
See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise… — David Whyte Doors Copy Share Image
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the… — David Whyte Accomplish Copy Share Image
We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and… — David Whyte Clear Copy Share Image
Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step.… — David Whyte Communication Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you need the ocean light, and colors you’ve never seen before painted through an evening sky. Sometimes you need your God… — David Whyte Evening sky Copy Share Image
As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way… — David Whyte Doors Copy Share Image
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte Equal Copy Share Image
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken… — David Whyte Busy Copy Share Image
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. — David Whyte Humans Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is… — David Whyte Courses Copy Share Image
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties. — David Whyte Behinds Copy Share Image
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. — David Whyte Inheritance Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, to feel alone or want to be alone is deeply unfashionable: to admit to feeling… — David Whyte Being alone Copy Share Image
“Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” — David Whyte Inspirational Copy Share Image
To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather… — David Whyte Abiding Copy Share Image
“To be disappointed is to reassess our self and our inner world, and to be called to the larger foundational reality that… — David Whyte Inner world Copy Share Image
I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your… — David Whyte Fall Copy Share Image
“To quote a Shakespearean cliché, repeated to death because it is so stubbornly true: “All the world’s a stage.” Work is theater.… — David Whyte Death Copy Share Image
