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The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
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Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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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.
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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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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 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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I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
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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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Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
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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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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
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There is no house like the house of belonging.
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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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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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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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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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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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Genius is becoming something you were all along.
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