Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed. David Whyte breakchildchoose Change image and share on social
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. David Whyte baseenthusiasmexcitement Change image and share on social
We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due. David Whyte compassionatedueexile share on social
A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away. David Whyte beautifulbeautybrace share on social
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. David Whyte askbasebelong Change image and share on social
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 abilitycapabledeath Change image and share on social
Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. David Whyte conveycourageousexude share on social
If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away. David Whyte amountdestinyenormous Change image and share on social
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. David Whyte bodyexperiencefelt Change image and share on social
Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. David Whyte blamecarryend Change image and share on social
