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A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

~David Whyte

Topics: Always Another Contains Conversation Herself Himself Invitation Inviting Person Real Reveal Tell Want Who You

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A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

~David Whyte

Topics: Enthusiasm Excitement Fear Involvement Little Passion Real Real Passion Sign Sure Very Workplace

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Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

~David Whyte

Topics: Attempting Change Complexity Eliminate Reality Stop Trying

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A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

~David Whyte

Topics: Ask Belong Constantly Even Had Know Large Me Something Telling Things Workplace World

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The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

~David Whyte

Topics: About Answering Asking Does Good Identity Marvelous Much Our Question Shapes Thing

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Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

~David Whyte

Topics: Arrogance Behind Bound Compassionate Courageous Fear Lie Only Our Speech Understanding Without

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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

~David Whyte

Topics: Away Beautiful Beauty Been Busyness Center Even Everything Forgetting Good Lives Makes Midst Our Our Lives Poem Reflected Sense Story Taken Ugliness

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Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

~David Whyte

Topics: Close Hear Honesty Lies Necessary Our Relationship Truth Understanding Wanting

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Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

~David Whyte

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful Word Brief Even Evocative Lost Possibilities Regret Short Word

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We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.

~David Whyte

Topics: Creativity Engagement Hope Kind Less More Moving Possibility Real Security Toward Which Work World

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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