See with every turning day,
how each season wants to make a child
of you again, wants you to become
a seeker after rainfall and birdsong,
watch now, how it weathers you to a testing
in the tried and true...

Excerpt from 'Coleman's Bed' in DAVID WHYTE: ESSENTIALS

The blessing of the morning light to you,
may it find you even in your invisible
appearances, may you be seen to have risen
from some other place you know and have known
in the darkness and that carries all you need.

From 'Blessing for the Morning Light'
© 2018 DW & Many Rivers
www.davidwhyte.com

'Sometimes' in 'DAVID WHYTE: ESSENTIALS'
© 2020 David Whyte & Many Rivers Press
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Join David Whyte for Three Sundays in July:

THE COURAGE IN POETRY
Living a Brave and Centred Life in a Very Anxious World

July 13, 20, 27
Live & Recorded

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"It’s still possible to fully understand
you have always been the place
where the miracle has happened..."

Join David for Three Sundays in July:

THE COURAGE IN POETRY
Live & Recorded
July 13, 20, 27

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Excerpts from 'Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity'

Learn about David Whyte's leadership organization, Invitas, including the upcoming Foundations of Conversational Leadership program, and a new round of online Salons beginning in September...

www.invitas.net

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your home
tonight...

- from 'Sweet Darkness'

An invitation to join David Whyte for Three Sundays in May:

EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU
The Extraordinary Benefits of Prolonged Attention

May 11, 18 and 25
Live or Recorded

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... Stand above the Seven Streams
letting the deep-down current surface
around you, then branch and branch
as they do, back into the mountain
and as if you were able for that flow,
say the few necessary words
and walk on, broader and cleansed
for having imagined.

- from The Seven Streams

ALL THE TRUE VOWS

All the true vows
are secret vows
the ones we speak out loud
are the ones we break.

There is only one life
you can call your own
and a thousand others
you can call by any name you want...

from 'All the True Vows' in RIVER FLOW and THE HOUSE OF BELONGING
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MOVING BEYOND THE POWER OF NOW
At Ease with Past, Present and Future

Three Sundays in March with David Whyte
Live & Recorded: March 16th, 23rd and 30th

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There is a faith in loving fiercely
the one who is rightfully yours,
especially if you have
waited years and especially
if part of you never believed
you could deserve this
loved and beckoning hand
held out to you this way...

from 'The Truelove' in DAVID WHYTE: ESSENTIALS
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You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not an accident
amidst other accidents,
you were invited
from another and greater
night than the one
from which
you have just emerged.

- David Whyte
from 'What to Remember When Waking'
in DAVID WHYTE ESSENTIALS
© 2020 | www.davidwhyte.com