To Break a Promise – Sept. 6, 2022
“Breaking promises is something most human beings have to do often, in order to remain true to the deeper underlying current of their lives and just as often, the lives of those to whom they made the promise: but it is not something we often do well.” –David Whyte, Essentials, p. 44
Start Close In – Sept. 5, 2022
“The temptation is to take the second or third step, not the first, to ignore the invitation into the center of our own body, into our grief, to attempt to finesse the grief and the absolutely necessary understanding at the core of the pattern, to forego the radical and almost miraculous simplification into which we […]
Being Saints – Feb. 15, 2022
“Alan Jones describes saints as those who “have been allowed to see into themselves and have not refused to look.” This reminds me of David Whyte’s provocative question in one of his poems: “Why are we the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our own flowering?” The path of brokenness is lined with […]
Unconditional Love – Sep. 23, 2020
“Unconditional love is that beautiful, hoped for impossibility, and yet we could not fully understand the nature of our helplessness without looking through the lens of that hoped-for perfection.” –David Whyte
