The value of a broken heart: Shows you are following a path of sincerity, according to David Whyte
Posted Apr 09 2011 12:00am
I have only heard David Whyte in videos, never in person. I understand it is a magical experience to listen to him while both you and he are in the same room. Click to watch a short clip of him speaking at this year's Psychotherapy Networker Symposium .
Whyte makes several thought-provoking statements in the three-minute clip (imagine hearing the whole talk!). For example (and I may not get these quotes verbatim):
No marriage, no matter how happy it is, won't leave you helpless and wanting at times, leaving you literally with a broken heart.
If you are sincere about your vocation, you will get to thresholds where you will not know how to proceed, when you will imprison yourself with the very endeavor that was first a doorway to freedom.
There is no journey of sincerity that a human being can take without having your heart broken.
If you are not disappointing yourself, you are not trying.
How much time and energy do you expend turning away from the possibility of heartbreak and from the forces of life? Trying to stay immune? Trying to remain untouched?
Whyte makes several thought-provoking statements in the three-minute clip (imagine hearing the whole talk!). For example (and I may not get these quotes verbatim):
How much time and energy do you expend turning away from the possibility of heartbreak and from the forces of life? Trying to stay immune? Trying to remain untouched?
Note: Until May 1, you can purchase Whyte's whole talk here .
Click to order the whole 4 hours of Dr. Bonnie Badenoch's presentation at Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2011 . Here's a blog post I did about her work , and two interviews I recently conducted of Dr. Badenoch: here and here .