What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the… - David Whyte

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What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind
in ways that diminish
its presence.

David Whyte

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About David Whyte

David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet.[1][2][3] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality".[4] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.

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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

Solace is not meant to be an answer, but an invitation, through the door of pain and difficulty, to the depth of suffering and simultaneous beauty in the world that the strategic mind by itself cannot grasp nor make sense of.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. - David Whyte

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