How difficult it is to die from my disbelief and kneel down to the truer underlying font of happiness waiting to break the enclosing surface, to believe in my body that I deserve the full spacious sense of not being thirsty anymore, of living a present contentment.– David Whyte, Newly Married The realization of not…
we will be remembered in the way others still live, and still live on, in our love.– David Whyte, Everlasting There’s a certain look in the eye of the next generation, both uncertain and certain at the same time. A look that says “I’ve got this” that convinces you that yes indeed, they really can…
“For Sayonara, literally translated, ‘Since it must be so,’ of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself by any bravado ‘Till we meet again,’ any sedative to postpone the pain of separation. It does not evade the issue…
We want the stillness and confidence of age, the space between self and all the objects of the world honoured and defined, the possibility that everything left alone can ripen of its own accord – David Whyte, Living Together I’d like to think that I’ve arrived at this stage in my life where I can…
George Bailey : [George hears a train whistle] There she blows. You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?Uncle Billy : Uh huh. Breakfast is served; lunch is served; dinner…George Bailey : No no no no. Anchor chains, plane motors and train whistles.– Scene from It’s a Wonderful Life I’m eager…
I have walked through many lives,some of them my own,and I am not who I was,though some principle of beingabides, from which I strugglenot to stray. We’re all collectors of sorts. Accumulating experience, relationships and perspective as we march through our time on this spinning blue ball in the dark vacuum of infinity. We acquire…
“I wrote a song called ‘Death Is Not the End’ a couple of years ago, and I never finished it. But I liked the idea, because I guess I don’t believe that it is the end. I carry so many ancestors with me on a daily basis. I experience my father regularly. I experience Clarence….
Do you remember in detail the last conversation you had with someone before they slipped away from you forever? I have a few such memories of old girlfriends and other tornadoes that quickly tore through my life, but I can’t tell you with any detail what the last conversation with my grandfather was like. And…
