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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
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Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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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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What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
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To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
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