That time #TerenceMcKenna interviewed #DavidWhyte, during the 1990s, that period we can now see as the high watermark of the late 20th century:
youtu.be/1YwyaSqcVIw?...
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The defining experience at the diamond-hard center of reality is eternal movement as beautiful and fearful invitation: a beckoning dynamic asking us to move from this to that.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘Consolations’
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The courageous life is the life that is equal to this unceasing tidal and seasonal becoming: and strangely beneath all, stillness being the only proper physical preparation for joining the breathing autonomic exchange of existence.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘Consolations’
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LOAVES AND FISHES
By #DavidWhyte
This is not
the age of information.
This is 𝒏𝙤𝒕
the age of information.
Forget the news,
and the radio,
and the blurred screen.
This is the time of loaves
and fishes.
People are hungry,
and one good word is bread
for a thousand.
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I think one of our great tasks as human beings is to find the part of us that is big enough for life, that can put its arms around the part that finds things difficult, that wants life to be different.
- #DavidWhyte
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It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear.
- #DavidWhyte
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How do you know that you're on your path? Because it disappears, that's how you know.
- #DavidWhyte
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Start Close In
#DavidWhyte
...Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people's questions,
don't let them
smother something
simple.
To hear
another's voice,
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes an
intimate private ear
that can
really listen
to another...
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everyone who joined me!
#ayurvedaforwinter #solsticeretreat #davidwhyte #darknessasteacher #solstice
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Beloved #Bard #DavidWhyte will open to new thresholds, new doorways, as long as he lives.
open.substack.com/pub/davidwhy...
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🎨📝 Artist Date Weekend in NYC!!! Enjoying a poetry and musical performance by David Whyte with Owen and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
#poetry #artistdate #solotravel #davidwhyte
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A courageous word itself is an act, and a word spoken with the whole body the literal wish to embody that act.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘The Heart Aroused’
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The courage to speak and stand by what we overhear ourselves saying is a learned and often frightening discipline.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘The Heart Aroused’
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The initial steps on the path of courageous speech are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘The Heart Aroused’
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If we can see the path ahead laid out for us, there is a good chance it is not our path; it is probably someone else’s we have substituted for our own.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘The Heart Aroused’
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Our own path must be deciphered every step of the way.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘The Heart Aroused’
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Our genius is to understand and stand beneath the set of stars present at our birth, and from that place, to seek the hidden, single star, over the night horizon, we did not know we were following.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘Consolations’
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There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
Heartbreak asks us not to look for an alternative path, because there is no alternative path.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘Consolations’
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Our greatest vulnerability is the very door through which we must pass in order to open the next horizon of our lives.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘Consolations’
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Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
- #DavidWhyte, 'Consolations’
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Looking forward to David Whyte's next Three Sunday Series on The Mythology of Ireland. Starts this Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST. #Spiritchat #KindledConnection #DavidWhyte #poet #poetry
davidwhyte.substack.com/p/last-call-...
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The image is a book cover, predominantly dark blue and black. A landscape scene occupies the lower half of the cover, depicting a body of water reflecting a pale, circular shape—possibly the moon—above a dark, hilly horizon line. Scattered white dots are overlayed across the entire image, resembling stars or light specks. The text on the cover reads, in varying sizes and weights: "CONSOLATIONS II", "THE SOLACE,", "NOURISHMENT", "AND", "UNDERLYING MEANING", "OF EVERYDAY WORDS", and "DAVID WHYTE". Above the title is a quote in smaller letters: “A compass for a lifetime.” – MARIA POPOVA. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:27b
David Whyte on the Relationship Between Anxiety and Intimacy via The Marginalian
welchwrite.com/blog/2025/10...
#anxiety #book #intimacy #davidwhyte #relationships #communication #life #living #shared
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"Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens
so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you."
- David Whyte
#poetry #davidwhyte #poetrysky
Quoted by
@samanthahall.bsky.social
in her followup #blogpost for #spiritchat.
Read it here:
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The will is a short distance sprinter. For any deep change and acts of creation, let the longing do the work.
- #DavidWhyte
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I've always felt that when you do feel loneliness, it's a kind of inverse measure of what you belong to. It actually tells you where to go.
- #DavidWhyte
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IMAGINE MY SURPRISE
By #DavidWhyte
Imagine my surprise
sitting a full hour
in silent and
irremediable
fear for the world,
to find the body
forgetting
its own fear,
the instant
it opened
and placed
its unassuming
hands
on life’s enduring
pain.
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The soul bereft of meaningful experience begins to engineer its escape from the structures holding it in check, by dying to itself.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘The Heart Aroused’
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The original
music, David says
is sweet poetry.
#dailyhaiku #haiku
#davidwhyte
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The will is a short distance sprinter. For any deep change and acts of creation, let the longing do the work.
- #DavidWhyte
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The split between what is nourishing at work and what is agonizing is the very chasm from which our personal destiny emerges.
- #DavidWhyte, ‘The Heart Aroused’
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