David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

Poet and Philosopher linktr.ee/poetdavidwhyte Joined July 2012

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

a month ago

Admit, your distant love affair is with yourself, and that no one can play harder to get: the unwritten letters, the plays for time, the heartbreak over never being properly answered. That coy look of false seduction in the mirror, or that hard look to hide what should not be…

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

a month ago

Beginning well or beginning poorly, what is important is simply to begin, but the ability to make a good beginning is also an art form. Like picking up a new and unfamiliar musical instrument, the first necessary step involves taking the time to get a simple clear note, usually…

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

2 months ago

A last call invitation to join me in March for: RE-IMAGINING SHAME The Secret, Hidden Driver of Human Maturation Three online sessions, live and recorded. Learn more at: live.davidwhyte.com All of us work with feelings of shame, great or small; this is an opportunity to…

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

7 months ago

Heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way. - from Consolations

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

8 months ago

To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world ... a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstanding of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear. -from the essay 'Touch'

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

8 months ago

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all other worlds except the one to which you belong. - from the poem 'Sweet Darkness'

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

8 months ago

Please join me for Three Sundays in September (live and recorded) looking at ways of working from a deeper, rested core that already exists inside us ... 'A Deeper Form of Rest' begins this Sunday, September 3rd. Learn more and register: live.davidwhyte.com

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

8 months ago

In silence, essence speaks to us of essence itself and asks for a kind of unilateral disarmament, our own essential nature slowly emerging as the defended periphery atomizes and falls apart ... - From the 'Silence' essay in Consolations

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

9 months ago

To rest is to give up on the already exhausted will as the prime motivator of endeavor, with its endless outward need to reward itself through established goals ... - from the 'Rest' essay in Consolations

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9 months ago

"What would my life be like if I had as much faith in parts of me that were fading away as I had in the parts of me that were growing?" @poetdavidwhyte #TheHeartAroused #Poetry #workculture #mouseholemusings

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

9 months ago

I thank you, light, again, for helping me to find the outline of my daughter’s face, I thank you light, for the subtle way your merest touch gives shape to such things I could only learn to love through your delicate instruction ... - DW from 'Blessing for the Morning Light'

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

9 months ago

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 pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last ... - David Whyte from 'Everything is Waiting for You'

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

9 months ago

Beauty is the harvest of presence. - from the 'Beauty' essay in Consolations

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

10 months ago

Being unappreciative might mean we are simply not paying attention. - David Whyte from the 'Gratitude' essay in Consolations

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10 months ago

"Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born." @poetdavidwhyte #poetry #mousehole #Cornwall

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

10 months ago

A last call invitation to join me for Three Sundays in July on the theme of 'Invisible' ... You can view the introductory video and register here: live.davidwhyte.com/july-2023-seri…

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

10 months ago

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life ... To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences ...

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10 months ago

“A beautiful question shapes your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered” @poetdavidwhyte

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

10 months ago

We are more real in our simple wish to find a way than any destination we could reach ... - David Whyte from the 'Close' essay in Consolations

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David Whyte @poetdavidwhyte

10 months ago

Disappointment is inescapable but necessary; a misunderstood mercy and when approached properly, an agency for transformation and the hidden, underground, engine of trust and generosity in a human life ... - DW from the 'Disappointment' essay in Consolations