David Whyte Inspirational Quotes

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• Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.88, Penguin

• The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest.
  It's wholeheartedness.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Wholeheartedness, Antidote

• Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Joy, Waiting

• You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Other Worlds

• What you plan is too small for you to live.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Plans

• Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Self

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.59, Penguin

• What we strive for
  in perfection
  is not what turns us
  into the lit angel
  we desire
  what disturbs
  and then nourishes
  has everything
  we need.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Angel, Perfection

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