David Whyte
David Whyte
David Whytewas an English professional footballer who played as a striker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
house belonging
There is no house like the house of belonging.
eye tired dark
When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love.
ease weight conversation
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.
life art memories
Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
imagination identity today
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
other-worlds inheritance remember
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
intimacy abandoned deny
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
real passion soul
A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.
opposites priorities risk
What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.
believe desperate humans
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
doe alive
Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
latin humility pride
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.
engineering years personality
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.
home moments exile
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.