David Whyte
David Whyte
David Whytewas an English professional footballer who played as a striker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
people tragedy answers
The 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. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.
shadow casts fearful
Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
writing doors goes-on
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. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.
religious quiet-moments silence
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
other-worlds inheritance remember
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
identity doe good-questions
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
inspirational joy waiting
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
drama mistake ifs
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.
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.
path doe mature
Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
reality identity abiding
To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.
numbness feelings tides
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside
inspirational giving-up other-worlds
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.