David Whyte Quotes

Your nature is the Buddha.

Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Heaven is within you.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.