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Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

~David Whyte

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Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

~David Whyte

Topics: Afraid Become Deeply Effect Found Fully Honest Honesty Honesty Is How Powerlessness Revealing Truth Understanding

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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.

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Topics: Away Become Believe Compassionate Due Exile Gain Generous Giving Grow Homecoming Learn Loss Much Our Receiving Things Through

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All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

~David Whyte

Topics: Alone Artistic Contemplative Difficult Great How Just Learn Moment Must Our Quiet Relationship Religious Say Silence Start Traditions You

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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

Topics: Being Break Child Choose Even Eventually Good Good Parent Grow Hearts Many Necessarily Our Own Parent Same Through Watch Way Will

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To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

~David Whyte

Topics: Alert Appreciate Attentive Average Better Even Experienced Eyes Fully Future High How Human Human Life Life Lived Our Past Possibly Regret Stakes Than Turns

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One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.

~David Whyte

Topics: Apart Been Broken Competence Difficulties Exploded Field Great Human Identity Organisation Prior Promoted Rise Territory Through Up You Your

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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

Topics: Blame Carry End Fault Full Honesty In The End Know Knowing Live Not Knowing Story Ultimately Us Where Who Will

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The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

~David Whyte

Topics: Account Again Age Constant Cycles Disintegration Going Hopefully Humbled Immunity Integration Lesson Matter Our Retirement Rights Set Size Through Ultimate Which World

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It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

~David Whyte

Topics: Deal Fear Mother Must Thing You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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