David Whyte
David Whyte
David Whytewas an English professional footballer who played as a striker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
self joy doorways
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation...
mean lovely steps
Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.
bird waiting cooking
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
reality might stories
The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.
numbness absent edges
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
giving-up insecurity definitions
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.
art listening-ear silence
The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.
path doe mature
Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
numbness feelings tides
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside
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.
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.
becoming genius becoming-something
Genius is becoming something you were all along.
world way precision
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
drama mistake ifs
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.