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To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world ... a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstanding of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear. -from the essay 'Touch'

Heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way. - from Consolations

A last call invitation to join me in March for: RE-IMAGINING SHAME The Secret, Hidden Driver of Human Maturation Three online sessions, live and recorded. Learn more at: live.davidwhyte.com All of us work with feelings of shame, great or small; this is an opportunity to

Beginning well or beginning poorly, what is important is simply to begin, but the ability to make a good beginning is also an art form. Like picking up a new and unfamiliar musical instrument, the first necessary step involves taking the time to get a simple clear note, usually

Admit, your distant love affair is with yourself, and that no one can play harder to get: the unwritten letters, the plays for time, the heartbreak over never being properly answered. That coy look of false seduction in the mirror, or that hard look to hide what should not be

Real conversation occurs at the frontier between what we think is us, and what we think is other than us. - David Whyte Learn about David Whyte's organization INVITAS: The Institute for Conversational Leadership invitas.net

It is a small step to remember how life led to this moment’s hesitation. How the door to the deeper world opens, letting the body fall at last, toward the few griefs it can call its own... Your full presence only in rest and the love that asks nothing. The rest where you lie

A last call invitation for Three Sundays in July: THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO The Life Long Adventure of Getting Where We Want to Go July 14th, 21st and 28th Live and Recorded Learn more and register: davidwhyte.com/store/three-su…

But come here now, into the arms of the waiting world, put down that heavy burden you have carried so long, and rest from the hard, every day labour of not hurting, or not feeling, or not hearing, or not saying or seeing. Stop keeping the tears at bay. Give it all up, just come

Just beyond yourself. It's where you need to be. Half a step into self-forgetting and the rest restored by what you'll meet. There is a road always beckoning... Read full poem and watch video here: davidwhyte.substack.com/p/just-beyond-…

What is this beguiling reluctance to be happy? This quickness in turning away the moment you might arrive? The felt sense, that a moment’s unguarded joy might after all, just kill you? You know so very well the edge of darkness you have always carried with you... But your

A last call for: INTIMATE The Art and Practice of Working from the Inside Out Live and Recorded September 8th 15th and 22nd davidwhyte.com/store/three-su… Join David Whyte for Three Sundays in September, looking at the way that intimacy is the ultimate underlying invitation, in

It is still possible to be kind to yourself, to drop constraints and fall often to your knees, it’s not too late now, to bow to what beckons, the world still swimming around you as you kneel transfigured by what sweeps on, it’s still possible to leave every fearful former self in

Yes, it’s still possible not to hold so tightly to what you think is true, to bend your head and assume humility beneath the eaves of a still spreading sky, to feel in the rain upon your upturned face, how you have always been friends with the distant horizon, no matter how far

It may be that the ability to know the necessity for help, to know how to look for that help, and then, most importantly, how to ask for it, is one of the primary transformative dynamics that allows us to emancipate ourselves into each new epoch of our lives... Without the

A last call invitation to join David for Three Sundays in November: A Matter of Life and Death The Everyday Art of Saying Hello or Saying Goodbye Live & Recorded November 10, 17 and 24 davidwhyte.com/store/three-su…

An invitation to join David Whyte for Three Sundays in May: EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU The Extraordinary Benefits of Prolonged Attention May 11, 18 and 25 Live or Recorded Join David Whyte for an exploration of the way deep and prolonged attention, and the strategic putting