David Whyte

David Whyte

The Winter of Listening

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born

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David Whyte
Dec 21, 2023
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Within this poem is an ancient intuitive understanding of winter as a time to leave things alone, to let things remain hidden, even to themselves. A time when to name anything would be to give it the wrong name, most especially refusing to name ourselves, a radical sense of letting ourselves alone, without even the most subtle, inter…

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