David Whyte on the Relationship Between Anxiety and Intimacy via The Marginalian

It takes a long time to know a person — to unbutton the costume of personality and unlace the corset of coping mechanisms in order to touch the naked soul. It is a process delicate and difficult, riven by anxiety and absolutely terrifying to both, requiring therefore great courage and great vulnerability — a process the hard-won product of which we call intimacy. “There is no terror like that of being known,”

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Ritual

Ritual is not the re-enactment of a past event. It is the re-enactment of meaning.

~ David Whyte

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Guy – dhammazaadjes – Wat hebben we nu nodig?

De sombere dagen van Allerheiligen en Allerzielen nopen tot bezinning. Vele mensen kunnen het daar moeilijk mee hebben. Na de begeleide meditatie van gisteravond vroeg Goedele zich af ‘wat hebben we nu nodig?’

Zachtheid, moed, maar vooral liefde! Dat hebben we nodig in het omgaan met de lastige dingen in ons leven.

Geïnspireerd door Tara Brach en David Whyte las Goedele volgende tekst voor:

‘Deze weinige woorden zijn genoeg. En als deze woorden dat niet zijn, dan deze adem wel.

En als deze adem dat niet is, dan het samen zitten hier.

Dit openstellen voor het leven, Dat we steeds opnieuw hebben geweigerd. Tot aan dit moment. Tot aan dit moment.’

 

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Guy – dhammazaadjes - Wat hebben we nu nodig? - Boeddhistisch Dagblad

Zachtheid, moed, maar vooral liefde! Dat hebben we nodig in het omgaan met de lastige dingen in ons leven.

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The Past Is Not the Past
"One of the things the Irish say is that 'The thing about the past is, it’s not the past.' [laughs] It’s right here, in this room, in this conversation." — David Whyte & The Conversational Nature of Reality, On Being with Krista Tippett

We who experienced it will always remember September 11th for all it was and would be for each of us. For
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“One of the things the Irish say is that ‘The thing about the past is, it’s not the past.’ [laughs] It’s right here, in this room, in this conversation.” — David Whyte & The Conversational Nature of Reality, On Being with Krista Tippett We who experienced it will always remember September 11th for all it...

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Something New
Above the mountainsthe geese turn intothe light againPainting theirblack silhouetteson an open sky.Sometimes everythinghas to beinscribed acrossthe heavensso you can findthe one linealready writteninside you.Sometimes it takesa great skyto find thatfirst, brightand indescribablewedge of freedomin your own heart.Sometimes withthe bones of the blacksticks left when the firehas gone outs
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Above the mountainsthe geese turn intothe light againPainting theirblack silhouetteson an open sky.Sometimes everythinghas to beinscribed acrossthe heavensso you can findthe one linealready writteninside you.Sometimes it takesa great skyto find thatfirst, brightand indescribablewedge of freedomin your own heart.Sometimes withthe bones of the blacksticks left when the firehas gone outsomeone has writtensomething newin the ashes of...

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Not Taken

The path you did not take ran with you for a while

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Blessing (For One Who Blessed)

may you remember us and bless us here

David Whyte
I do think a good poem, or [a] good speech, is listened into the world as much as it's spoken. … You're trying to speak to the listening ear. … Years ago when I was writing I would imagine myself whispering into a loved one's ear in a very very low voice what needed to be said. … It's that kind of close in whispering which is enchanting you into, and engendering you into, new understandings. … You are big enough, you are large enough, to actually meet the heartbreak that is your path.
—David Whyte
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To Rest
“The template of natural exchange is the breath, the autonomic giving and receiving that forms the basis and the measure of life itself. We are rested when we are a living exchange between what lies inside and what lies outside, when we are an intriguing conversation between the potential that lies in our imagination and the possibilities for making that internal image real in the world; we are res
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“The template of natural exchange is the breath, the autonomic giving and receiving that forms the basis and the measure of life itself. We are rested when we are a living exchange between what lies inside and what lies outside, when we are an intriguing conversation between the potential that lies in our imagination and...

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