I want to know
if you are prepared to live in a world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand.
β David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from ππͺπ³π¦ πͺπ― π΅π©π¦ ππ’π³π΅π©]
I want to know if you are prepared to live in a world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand. β David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from ππͺπ³π¦ πͺπ― π΅π©π¦ ππ’π³π΅π©]
The frontier between what you want out of the world and what the world wants out of you.
On Being β’ David Whyte β Seeking Language Large Enough
SOMETIMES... See more
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 Whyteβs Stunning Meditation on Walking into the Questions of Our Becoming
SOMETIMES
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 lea... See more
Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot unde
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The poet needs the practicalities of making a living to test and temper the lyricism of insight and observation. The corporation needs the poetβs insight and powers of attention to weave the inner world of soul and creativity with the outer world of form and matter.
David Whyte β’ The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
βThe ability to ask beautiful questions β often in very un-beautiful moments β is one of the great disciplines of a human life.β
David Whyte