The Seven Streams - David Whyte
"... Be a provenance of something gathered, a summation of previous intuitions..." The Seven Streams
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"... Be a provenance of something gathered, a summation of previous intuitions..." The Seven Streams
"Be infinitessimal under that sky, a creature even the sailing hawk misses..." Mameen
"People are hungry and one good word is bread for a thousand" Loaves and Fishes
For those artists among us, a poem on inspiration: The Lightest Touch
This wonderful guides directly into diverse realms of spiritual phenomenology. See also, already stronger and radiating: Epiphany and Inspiration: Nietzsches Take
David Whyte is an extraordinary poet. See his biography here: http://www.davidwhyte.com/biography.html In this series, you are warmly invited to read his poems on his website, beginning with Revelation Must Be Terrible
This beautiful blog by Clare includes David Whyte's poem and a stunning picture. What (or who) is waiting for you?
Plus a: Talk with David Whyte about poetry As Poetry in science, poltics, corporate culture and daily life is a completely underestimated asset. Best, Albert
Imagine: A Spiritual Manifesto Posted on Mar 21st, 2008 by Julian Imagine: A Spiritual Manifesto by Julian and featuring Kabir, Joseph Campbell, Rumi, Walt Whitman, Albert Einstein, David Whyte and John Lennon. Imagine that the... More »
SELF PORTRAIT It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others. I... More »
EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU (After Derek Mahon) Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no... More »
Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote ‘The Invitation' late one night after returning from a party. She was unsettled and disappointed with an evening that had been full of the usual social conversation. Her words from... More »
Filed under "inspiration", these are some of the many quotes that I keep on me at all times. Below are just a few that I find myself really connecting to right now and they are... More »
From "The winter of Listening" All this petty worry while the great cloak of the sky grows dark and intense round every living thing. What is precious inside us does not care to be... More »
"Everything everything everything is waiting for you...."
I have been asked many questions in my life, and one always stands out as been memorable and transformational. Many years ago ( sometime in the 90's ) I was walking on the Burren (... More »
The dark night of the soul is a universal experience that all of us goes through several times in life, whether we want to or not, whether we are aware of it or not. It... More »
It wasn't the summer I thought it would be. My goals were go to the gym, get my body in shape, do yoga, meditate, draw, visit Ohio, blog and rest. I accomplished most of these but none... More »
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.
"Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human."
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.
Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.
and how we are all
preparing for that
abrupt waking,
and that calling,
and that moment
we have to say yes,
except it will
not come so grandly,
so Biblically,
but more subtly
and intimately in the face
of the one you know
you have to love
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 womb tonight. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see. You must learn one thing. The world was meant to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. 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.
Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.