David Whyte Quotes

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.

Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Break through the bonds of your past.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

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