David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. ”

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away. ”

One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity. ”

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. ”

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief. ”

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death. ”

We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement. ”

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own. ”