Thanks a lot for this, I’ve been debating if I wanted to read the book myself for a while, and this collection of quotes really made the case for reading it
Thank you so much for having me on the pod, and it was icing on the cake to hang with you and Khe in person earlier this week!! Can’t wait to dive into these David Whyte quotes — thank you for curating them, this will be an instant bookmark post 🙏🥰
Paul introduced me to David Whyte in 2018, which amounted to a huge opening to begin to conceive of a new life. I read most of Whyte after that and just now brought out "Crossing the Unknown Sea" to read it again since so important and helpful. I want to add a passage I just read now that I thought was extraordinary, so here it it is, from page 70:
"Not one of us, despite millennia of theological investigation really knows where we come from of where we go. We especially to not know how our daily work actually fits into that perspective, but most of us have INTIMATIONS of some greater continuum of which we are a part. The intuition is a lifeline to a greater participation beyond our present work, beyond our present horizon. Without it our work finds no greater context. Remembering this life's journey beyond our present daily commute is one of life's great disciplines, but keeping it as a constant, inspiring companion is beyond most of our powers. Sooner or later we forget, we lose sight, we come to a place in our lives where the VISION SPLENDID begins to fade into the light of common day.
p. 80 "A life's work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements. Looking back for a sense of reference, we see the wake we have left as only a brief, glimmering trace on the waters."
Thanks a lot for this, I’ve been debating if I wanted to read the book myself for a while, and this collection of quotes really made the case for reading it
Thank you so much for having me on the pod, and it was icing on the cake to hang with you and Khe in person earlier this week!! Can’t wait to dive into these David Whyte quotes — thank you for curating them, this will be an instant bookmark post 🙏🥰
Paul introduced me to David Whyte in 2018, which amounted to a huge opening to begin to conceive of a new life. I read most of Whyte after that and just now brought out "Crossing the Unknown Sea" to read it again since so important and helpful. I want to add a passage I just read now that I thought was extraordinary, so here it it is, from page 70:
"Not one of us, despite millennia of theological investigation really knows where we come from of where we go. We especially to not know how our daily work actually fits into that perspective, but most of us have INTIMATIONS of some greater continuum of which we are a part. The intuition is a lifeline to a greater participation beyond our present work, beyond our present horizon. Without it our work finds no greater context. Remembering this life's journey beyond our present daily commute is one of life's great disciplines, but keeping it as a constant, inspiring companion is beyond most of our powers. Sooner or later we forget, we lose sight, we come to a place in our lives where the VISION SPLENDID begins to fade into the light of common day.
beautiful
p. 80 "A life's work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements. Looking back for a sense of reference, we see the wake we have left as only a brief, glimmering trace on the waters."
just ordered the book!