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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.
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.
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A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.
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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
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Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.
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Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
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We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
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Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.
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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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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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