The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.
David WhyteThe severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
David WhyteI want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.
David WhyteWe sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.
David Whyte