David Whyte Quotes

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

Life is all about the spirit.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

We are what we love.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

I wanted to be part of something bigger

I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We search to become human in a world that tempts us always to be less than human or looks to us to be more. We search to love and to be loved. And in a world where it is often hard to believe in much of anything, we search to believe in something holy and beautiful and life-transcending that will give meaning and purpose to the lives we live.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.