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David Whyte's third book of poetry explores the element of fire, its presence in the earth as well as in ourselves, even in stillness. Such an essential and beautiful book. I often think that prose is the art of explaining, while poetry is the very essence of the thing itself; but prose can come within a hairsbreadth of poetry in a good novel or in a scientific or psychological story, beautifully told.

Through storytelling, perspectives can be won and most of all enjoyed, far beyond the satisfactions of mere explanation. But regarding prose, my most rewarding experiences came in writing the essays that made up Consolations, a book written almost completely whilst traveling around the planet, in hotel lobbies, trains, boats and planes and even on steep mountain sides: a series of lightning raids written in a kind of psychological collaboration with my then assistant, Julie Quiring; who helped shepherd, not only my writing endeavours but midwifing the essays out to my readers to meet our self-appointed deadlines.

In writing Consolations in all of those memorable locations, I experienced the same physical sense of arrival and disappearance that has always accompanied the the writing of poetry. The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

Reimagine how you inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understanding. The Three Marriages suggests that separating these "marriages" in order to balance them is Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reawakening the sleeping captain that lives within each of us, before our souls crash on the rocks. The book In The Heart Aroused, David Whyte brings his unique perspective as poet and consultant to the workplace, opening readers' eyes to a neglected side of Includes the popular essays, Friendship, Gratitude, and Regret.

Menu David Whyte 0. David Whyte. The final stanza reads:. It is Moses in the desert fallen to his knees before the lit bush. It is the man throwing away his shoes as if to enter heaven and finding himself astonished, opened at last, fallen in love with solid ground. David explained that after falling on your knees, the next step in one's awakening is shedding the "old skin" like animals do and as the Enneagram helps us do.

It's messy and awkward, and the animal is quite shaggy for a long while before its full coat comes in. David laughed at this image and the rejoinder you can give to someone at that time in your life: "Come back and see me in a few months after I've got the hang of this new coat that's coming in.

His poem "Start Close In" shows the steps necessary to move forward as one sheds and awakens to more solid ground of being. Gerry felt sure David's message would appeal to our Enneagram community.

In the early s she first discovered David in her workplace. She marveled that a major corporation had contracted with a poet as a workplace consultant, who spoke about how work needs to serve both the business and the individual worker.

After hearing him at a Body and Soul conference and listening to his recordings, she found the courage to retire from a work she loved but whose political demands were draining her energy, to pursue her true calling. Gerry told me that she sensed that David would be the perfect EANT keynote because at last year's Montreat conference she heard David's name or poems spoken "four times" — by keynote Cynthia Bourgeault, poet Glennis Redmond, EANT conference coordinator Sandra Smith, and at Marion Gilbert's morning movement session when she played David's recorded voice reciting his poem.

About fifteen minutes into his keynote Gerry realized that "everyone was captivated by the field of his energy, presence and words. Google is an excellent source for David's work.