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"There is no sincere path a person can take without having their hearts broken."

Join David Whyte for the remainder of our March series, "The Cost of Love." We are exploring the hidden rewards and necessary vulnerabilities of putting ourselves in peril for a worthwhile life. Join a global community in this exploration of intimacy, with full access to all session recordings and resource guides. by @davidjwhyte

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“...not because you had given up but because now, you would find a different way to tread...”  What is one thing you are ready to unburden yourself from this week?  ‘Finisterre’ in “David Whyte: Essentials” © David Whyte and Many Rivers Press 2020

#davidwhyte #poetry #writing by @davidjwhyte

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Thank you to everyone who joined us in Ashland. It was a beautiful afternoon as David looked at the theme of Clear Mind, Wild Heart-exploring how the clear, heartfelt language of poetry can help us move past our defensive barriers, free ourselves from inner constraints, and reclaim the elemental energies that bring true joy to our lives.

#poetry by @davidjwhyte

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Become The Ancestor Of Your Future Happiness - David Whyte (Poet & Author of Consolations)

Full episode available on YouTube (DavidPerellChannel) by @davidjwhyte

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13 days ago

What makes healing possible in a world defined by change?

David joins Thomas Hübl and a group of extraordinary teachers for Healers on Healing—a free online series exploring trauma, ancestral lineage, and the quiet steps toward wholeness.

Registration is open at the link in bio. by @davidjwhyte

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"If we only work with our inherited knowns, then we'll probably perish."

Are the very qualities that helped us survive in the past now keeping us from taking our next step into the future? In this clip, David reflects on human survival, the nature of mercy, and why true healing requires bringing the invisible into our daily lives.

Join David Whyte for the free online series Healers on Healing hosted by Thomas Hübl.

Link in bio to register for free. by @davidjwhyte

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The person who set out on the journey is not the person who arrives.

- David Whyte

#poet #poetry #davidwhyte #davidwhytepoetry #journey by @davidjwhyte

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"The soul's authority."

A phrase heard in passing this summer in Ireland went through David Whyte "like a knife," opening up a clear path into the future—and inspiring our upcoming series.

In a restless world, how do we shift our identity from surface noise to radical simplicity?

Watch this brief introduction from David, then join us this Sunday, September 13th, for the start of The Soul’s Authority: A Star for Navigation Through Our Restless World.

Dates: September 13, 20, & 27
Recordings sent to all registered participants.

Last call to register—link in bio to join. by @davidjwhyte

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“‘The Soul’s Authority’ is a phrase I heard in passing this summer in Ireland... one that went right through me like a knife, as if I was suddenly made ready for what might lie behind the invitation in those three words.” — David Whyte

The soul is the faculty of belonging in each of us—that part trying to belong to the world in the largest way it can. Yet the bravery of the soul is often disturbing to our surface lives. Moving from surface to depth, from complexity to radical simplicity, becomes a necessary part of the journey.

Join David Whyte for Three Sundays in September, beginning this Sunday, September 13th. Together, we will explore this inner star of navigation—the quiet compass that carries us through the clouded skies of everyday confusion.

Live & Recorded
Reserve your place at davidwhyte.com/threesundays or via the link in our bio. by @davidjwhyte

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25 days ago

Let the gentle things find you.

“The Lightest Touch” from Everything Is Waiting for You
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press (2003)

#poetry #light #oneline #davidwhyte by @davidjwhyte

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“The soul would rather fail spectacularly at its own life, than succeed drably at someone else’s.”

‘The Soul’s Authority’ is a phrase I heard in passing this summer in Ireland. A very short sentence, but one that went right through me like a knife, as if I was suddenly made ready for what might lie behind the invitation in those three words and the future they suddenly seemed to open up. The phrase seemed to both identify and immediately activate a central ground of knowing inside me, located at a very fierce centre of my body. It gave me a literal ground to stand on but also opened a clear path to the future.

We can look at the soul as the faculty of belonging in each of us, that part of us that is trying to belong to the world in the largest way it can. The bravery of the soul is often disturbing to the way our surface life is arranged, so shifting our identity from surface to depth, from complexity to radical simplicity, from immediate barriers to a guiding star beyond, is a necessary part of the journey.

Join David Whyte for Three Sundays in September for a journey into ‘the soul’s authority’, the blessed inner star of navigation that carries the ability to draw us through all difficulties, appearing and disappearing, but often shining brightly, even through the clouded skies of our everyday confusion.

The Soul’s Authority: A Star for Navigation Through Our Restless World

Three Sundays in September: September 13, 20, 27 | Live and Recorded

Link in bio to register.

#poet #ThreeSundays #Soul #september #DavidWhyte by @davidjwhyte

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Everything is waiting for you. A reminder that the world is always ready when we are.

'Everything is Waiting For You'
in “River Flow:
New and Selected Poems”
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press 2012

#DavidWhytePoetry #PoetryCommunity #DeepListening #EverydayWonder by @davidjwhyte

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