Reads tagged with “David Whyte”

Blessing Sound, Blessing Light: David Whyte’s Poems for the Small Miracles of Presence that Awaken Us to the Wonder of Being Alive
Cinematic songs of praise for the visible invisibilities and the silent symphonies that make life worth living.

Waking Up: David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence
“The object in meditation and all of our contemplative disciplines is silence… in order for you to perceive something other than yourself… Poetry is the verbal art-form by which we can actually create silence.”

Sometimes: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Stunning Meditation on Walking into the Questions of Our Becoming
An invitation into the transcendent disquietude of those stirrings “that can make or unmake a life,” “that have no right to go away.”

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Love and Resisting the Tyranny of Relationship Labels
“We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it.”

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Courage, Love, and Hardship as the Grounds for Self-Expansion
“Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.”

The Truelove: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Reaching Beyond Our Limiting Beliefs About the Love We Deserve
“if you wanted to drown you could, but you don’t because finally after all this struggle and all these years you simply don’t want to any more, you’ve simply had enough of drowning and you want to live and you want to love”

Proximity: A Meditative Tree-Inspired Visual Poem About Reaching for Something You Can’t Quite Grasp
Soulful sylvan consolation partway between David Byrne, Bill T. Jones, and the Buddha.

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Gorgeous Letter to Children About Reading, Amazement, and the Exhilaration of Discovering the Undiscovered
A celebration of the delicious enchantment of the very first time.

Working Together: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Beautiful Ode to Our Mutuality with the World
“We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again.”

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