Improbably, I know, but what do David Whyte and Charles Bukowski have in common?
Both advocate only doing what we can do wholeheartedly.
Category: Poetry
Talk of peace will avail you naught
I’ve just discovered Urdu poet, Parveen Shakir, and her poem delightfully reminding us that it is pointless to talk of love and hate ~ that is it is pointless to talk about our position in the world. We are our willingness to engage with others . . . my prose is awful . . . read her poetry!
Oh! The roots of postive organizational scholarship in Henry Thoreau and American transcendentalism
“As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.” Ralp Emmerson
3 quotations on mindfulness and action
A good year ago I jotted down these three quotations. Then I abandoned the draft. Now I am tidying up… Read more 3 quotations on mindfulness and action
Your frontiers
David Whyte takes about finding the frontiers of your life: the place where you face the unknown in an expansive… Read more Your frontiers
Discovering poetry: Shel Silverstein
StumbleUpon kindly threw up this freeform poem of Shel Silverstein. I haven’t read him before. I particularly like What If… Read more Discovering poetry: Shel Silverstein
David Whyte
David Whyte : Born in Yorkshire, of Irish descent, David Whyte is a marine biologist, NGO worker, turned poet who… Read more David Whyte