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To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

David Whyte

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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Poet
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
Gift
Others
Become
Human
Humans
Carrying
Hidden
Visible

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We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.
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Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
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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.
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A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
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There is no house like the house of belonging.
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We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
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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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The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
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What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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