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A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements. — David Whyte
19I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
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Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Presence is only fully understood and realized through fully understanding our reluctance to show up. — David Whyte
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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 truthful difficulty of the average human life.
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The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. And there's very little fear. The world was made to be free in. — David Whyte
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The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
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The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears — David Whyte
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See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore.
and you’re on your way again. — David Whyte
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A real conversation always contains an invitation. — David Whyte
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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 over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments.
It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. — David Whyte
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Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte
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Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.
When we demand a certain specific kind of reciprocation before the revelation has flowered completely we find ourselves disappointed and bereaved and in that grief may miss the particular form of love that is actually possible but that did not meet our initial and too specific expectations.
Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is the purest form of care, the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
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“Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future.
It suggests that true fulfillment comes from living with intention and presence rather than accumulating material possessions. His work focuses on themes of courage, vulnerability, and connection to the natural world. If you can just say exactly the way that you’re imprisoned - the door swings open. Experiencing real pain ourselves, our moral superiority comes to an end; we stop urging others to get with the program, to get their act together or to sharpen up, and start to look for the particular form of debilitation, visible or invisible that every person struggles to overcome.
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3The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are.