David Whyte
David Whyte
David Whytewas an English professional footballer who played as a striker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
inspirational real thinking
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.
want courageous conversation
The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
way courageous made
Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.
firsts steps want
Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.
home moments exile
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.
sleep vitality enough
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 your sleep.
humans visible
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
pain distance taken
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.
earth flowering species
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
moving home swings
As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you don’t belong, exactly the way that you can’t love, exactly the way that you can’t move ... and you’re on your way again. You’re on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you’re imprisoned - the door swings open.
other-worlds inheritance remember
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
inspirational joy waiting
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
inspirational angel perfection
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
imagination identity today
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.