David Whyte

David Whyte

Sweet Darkness

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness

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David Whyte
May 20, 2023
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Written out of that very physical and almost breathless giving away, most human beings feel, when they must let go of what seems most precious to them, not knowing how or when it will return, in what form or in what voice - that taking away of the light walking through divorce or separation, through bereavement or through simply not recognizing the person looking back at us in the mirror.

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