David Whyte (Part 1)

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 147 minutes

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David Whyte is a prolific Irish poet, philosopher, and speaker whose work that spans nearly four decades has resonated with audiences around the world. Beginning his career in 1986, Whyte has published three books of prose and ten volumes of poetry, including Still Possible and Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. Through his Three Sundays Series, he creates immersive experiences for his audience that invite reflection on the complexities of human existence in 75-minute online sessions. His latest collection, Consolations II, continues his exploration of language and the choices that shape our daily lives. This month, Whyte is commencing the Consolations II England & Scotland Book Tour, which will move through Edinburgh, London, Oxford and Brighton. In January, he will speak daily at the Wisdom & Wellbeing Week 1 Intensive in Nosara, Costa Rica, alongside Henry Shukman, Leslie Salmon Jones, and Jeff W. Jones, building a foundation for each day’s conversation by sharing meaningful poetry and thought-provoking commentary. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Vivo Barefoot http://vivobarefoot.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:02.0	Tetracketka
0:07.0	The Morning Light Blessing of the morning light.
0:23.6	The blessing of the morning light to you.
0:27.6	May it find you even in your invisible appearances.
0:33.6	May you be seen to have risen from some other place you know and have known in the darkness,
0:40.3	and that carries all you need.
0:43.3	May you see what is hidden in you as a place of hospitality and shadowed shelter.
0:48.3	May what is hidden in you become your gift to give.
0:52.3	May you hold that shadow to the light, and the silence of that shelter to the word of the
0:58.6	light, may you join every previous disappearance with this new appearance, this new morning,
1:05.7	this being seen again, new and newly alive.
1:13.0	It's so beautiful.
1:17.3	Tell me how that poem came to be.
1:20.1	I had a very good friend.
1:23.5	He was quite well known, John O'Donoghue,
1:26.3	and he wrote on the Celtic world.
1:32.3	I first knew him when he was poor as a church mouse as a priest in the heart of Connemara, and he became a worldwide phenomena, really, with his book, Annam Kara.
1:37.3	He was a philosopher, poet. I'm a poet philosopher in a way.
1:41.3	I came to philosophy through poetry.
1:43.3	He came to poetry in a way through his studies of
1:46.5	the great German philosophers, actually, and actually had a postgraduate from Heidelberg and
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