David Whyte

“Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.”

“One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.”

“Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.”

“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.”

“No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.”

“In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.”