David Whyte Quotes

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.