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David Whyte Inspirational Quotes (58)

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The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
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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.
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and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love
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Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.
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We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again
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I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.
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Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.
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Poetry is a break for freedom.
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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.
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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.
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The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears
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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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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.
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The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
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Genius is becoming something you were all along.
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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
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What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?
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Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
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We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.
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Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
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Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
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The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.
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The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
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