See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.
David WhyteThe fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
David WhyteThe truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.
David WhyteTo feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.
David Whyte