David Whyte: On Seeking Language Large Enough

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David Whyte: On Seeking Language Large Enough

What you can plan is too small for you to live.
What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.

- David Whyte -

David Whyte: On Seeking Language Large Enough

"It has ever and always been true, David Whyte reminds us, that so much of human experience is a conversation between loss and celebration. This conversational nature of reality -- indeed, this drama of vitality -- is something we have all been shown, willing or unwilling, in these years. Many have turned to David Whyte for his gorgeous, life-giving poetry and his wisdom at the interplay of theology, psychology, and leadership -- his insistence on the power of a beautiful question and of everyday words amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life. The notion of "frontier"-- inner frontiers, outer frontiers -- weaves through this hour. We surface this as a companion for the frontiers we are all on just by virtue of being alive in this time." { read more }

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For more from David Whyte, check out this piece on, "Welcoming Humiliation." { more }


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