What to Remember When Waking

David Whyte

SESSION ONE
Disciplines for Facing the SESSION FOUR
Unknown The Conversational Nature of an
Introduction Everyday Life
Returning to the central conversation Introduction
Living with a true inheritance A life of conversation
Start close in What language do I need to learn?
Taking the courageous step A discipline of dreaming
Looking life in the eye The questions that belong to us
A relationship with the unknown The secret of a larger happiness
A sense of belonging Courageous decisions
Turn sideways into the light The house of belonging
Ancestral voices
Invisible prayers
SESSION FIVE
The Disciplines of Focus and
SESSION TWO Momentum
Disciplines of Vulnerability Introduction
Introduction Friendship and forgiveness
Opening to a different narrative To bless and be blessed
Vulnerability as a faculty for understanding Living the answer
A fierce interior focus Less than you think
Sweet honey from old failures Joy in the act of learning
The sense of arrival
SESSION THREE
Asking for Invisible Help SESSION SIX
Introduction The Disciplines of Death and
Everything is waiting for you
Disappearance
Joined to creation
Introduction
Calling on all the voices in the world
Apprenticed to the arc of your disappearance
The vulnerability of being seen
Death might be something we are never
Don’t wait for revelation
meant to understand
Letting your defenses down
Live to the point of tears
Stepping forward into the unknown
Conversations with absent friends
Learning to lose loss itself
All your intuitions were true
An enormous story behind you

SOUNDS TRUE
Many voices. One journey.

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