David Whyte: Preserving the Soul (excerpt) - Thinking Allowed with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 

Love this, watching in 2024!!❤❤

Understanding poetry, is to understand the great unknown

Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you. -- David Wagoner (1999)

Love these lines ' all the voices will....drown out... your silence....', 'the forest knows where you are, you must let it find you"

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. - Joseph Roux

If I properly lose myself, I discover to my astonishment, a natural awareness always there beside me.

I've watched this several times now and it doesn't cease to amaze me, to move me, to inspire me.

God, this is amazing.

Always so good to listen to the wisdom of David Whyte.

Thank you for the beautiful poem Lost by David Wagoner. I can relate to the feeling. Here is my interpretation of this poem in Russian: Если заблудился Остановись. Постой. Деревья и кусты вокруг не заблудились. И где бы ни был ты, - Ты точно "здесь". Перед тобой - могучий незнакомец. Смиренно попроси узнать его, Быть узнанным. Лес дышит. Слушай. Шепчет он: Я создал это место для тебя. Его покинешь - возвращайся, молвив : "Здесь". Две ветки непохожи для дрозда, Два дерева ворона различит. Но если больше ты не видишь лес вокруг - Ты заблудился. Стой. Остановись. Лес знает, где ты - Дай себя найти!

Wow I'm in shock..in a good way awakening way. ...

I like that fact that poetry is broken down to language about the environment instead of "interior life". It is religion which modifies society's behavior.

Maybe the best 8 minutes of TA.

This reminds me of Robin Williams narrating poems in Dead Poet Society

This is a beautiful segment, thank you. ❤

Brilliant. ❤

Amazing chat!

I have stood in that forest That David Whyte spoke of Silent yet never so alive in seeing and knowing. Trees bowing their branches… to me. I knew. They knew. Bending low in acknowledgement and appreciation for my life. I bowing to them in gratitude in that knowing for their life. They knew me. I knew them. Honored each other Saw each other Talked to each other for a long while in silence. I bow to your sacredness, we both said together Both felt so deeply within. Our shared radiance our equal light shining, shining up at me, shining down at me, shining through. Seen. Shared. in silence. (I met John O’Donohue at a workshop Kripalu after one of his talks. I told him a little of who I was, he said “I saw you shining up at me, from the audience”, he adding to my light in that moment. Such are the precious, moments to cherish…a tree, a poet, a bird, a walker in the woods, life’s trials and tribulations, giving to a homeless person, a seeing, a knowing, lending a kind word, to pass on, always, whenever we can, sharing, such in life.)

I’ve come to the conclusion that poetry is not for everyone.🙂

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I don't see it on your page man I would love to see that!

7:17 My friend typed this in a message. ❤

Believe me there is no poetry in the soul of a corporate lackey and never will be until he/she sacrifices the reflective need for the power identity that corporations must necessarily feast upon.

Can you please put the original air date of this interview (and any other clip you post on RU-vid)? I think it’s incredibly important to know for cultural context. And it’s one of the basics of the W’s, Who, What, Where, When (and How). FYI, Thinking Allowed ran 1986-2002.

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