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The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
Film Director
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Poet
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Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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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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Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.
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To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.
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I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
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In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.
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Genius is becoming something you were all along.
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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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To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
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A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
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Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
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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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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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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
David Whyte
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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I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.
David Whyte
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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