“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.” MomentsDifficultReligiousSilenceQuietTraditionArtisticContemplativeQuiet Moments Author:David Whyte
“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.” GivingHumansArtMomentsFeelingsDifficultQualityHuman QualitiesApotheosis Author:David Whyte
“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.” WorldYearsWellsMayMomentsRealityPainDesireTurnsImaginationCreativeTakenTroublePossibilityFitDistanceBusyConstructsSabotage Author:David Whyte
“Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.” IfsMomentsDesireAttentionPathFeetFieldsPossibilityConversationDemandElementsOceanStonesConstantSeriesBreathingAtmosphereSurroundCrossingsHeadingsStepping Stones Author:David Whyte
“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” KnowsMomentsFacesFaithCallingThat MomentWakingPreparing Author:David Whyte
“The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.” MomentsHomeExile Author:David Whyte
