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David Whyte
“Jane Austen never did marry. Why doesthat statement call for such reflexive pity? It carries a diferent meaning if we follow it up: Jane Austen never did marry, and therefore she was given the time and perspective to produce books as well-written as those by anyone who ever lived."

-David Whyte”
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

David Whyte
“Feeling far away from what we want tells us one of two things about our work: that we are at the beginning or that we have forgotten where we were going.”
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

C.S. Lewis
“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why...the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.”
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

David Whyte
“Life can find you only if you are paying real attention to something other than you own concerns, if you can hear and see the essence of otherness in the world, if you can treat the world as if it is not just a backdrop to your own journey, if you can have a relationship with the world that isn't based on triumphing over it or complaining about it.”
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

David Whyte
“Only those who put more energy into self-pity than into paying attention are truly marooned.”
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

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