David Whyte, Poet — Spacious Ease, Irish Koans, Writing in Delirium, and Revelations From a Yak Manger
In the early 20th century, Rilke wrote a wonderful series of letters to a young poet in which he counseled, "Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart." He said, "Try to love the questions themselves as though they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language." He said, "Don't try to reach for the answers which could not... See more
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by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you
Sometimes: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Stunning Meditation on Walking into the Questions of Our Becoming
it might be difficult, at first blush, to get something seemingly tangible, practical, and readily applicable to one’s day-to-day life from poetry or spirituality. But men die miserably every day from lack of what is found there. In other words, we humans suffer needlessly from an absence of what can be found in poetry and in spirituality.
Rainn Wilson • Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
Poet David Whyte offered a fresh perspective through his concept of a “conversational identity.” The idea is that we are constantly changing and evolving, always in the middle of something; therefore, our relationships should be fluid, more conversational, where we are not completing the work but rather beginning the conversation. He explained that
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