David Whyte

Irish poet, David Whyte, has a Facebook page where he often posts excerpts from his beautiful poems and writings. One of my favorite collections is The House of Belonging. Of course, he has a website, too: https://davidwhyte.com/

This is from BEGINNING

It is always hard to believe that the courageous step is so close to us, that it is closer than we ever could imagine, that in fact, we already know what it is, and that the step is simpler, more radical than we had thought: thought: just sitting down to the desk, just picking up the instrument or the phone: which is why we so often prefer to live in an almost world, why we prefer the story to be more elaborate, our identities to be safely clouded by fear, why we want the horizon to remain always in the distance, the promise never fully and simply made, the essay longer than it needs to be and the answer safely in the realm of impossibility.
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BEGINNING
From CONSOLATIONS:
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press 2015
https://www.amazon.com/Consolations-Nourishment-Underlying-Meaning-Everyday/dp/1932887342/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid