David Whyte Quotes

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

I'm not a guy who looks for signs in the universe to tell him things. I believe that if you search hard enough for the answer you already know, you will find it.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.

Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

Listen to your Own Heart Concerning the Path you Wish to Travel.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.