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When the Heart Breaks

A Journey Through Requited and Unrequited Love

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When the Heart Breaks

By: David Whyte
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If you never knew disappointment, would you ever grow? If you had never felt loss, could you have compassion for another? Without real heartache, would you ever know the greatness of love? On When the Heart Breaks, David Whyte invites you to join him in an investigation of a question that rests at the center of human experience. With a poet's insight into the landscape of the soul, he offers a deeply moving exploration of how we experience love and loss, and how with resilience and time we can rise again each time we are broken. "No human being has ever lived without knowing heartbreak," David Whyte tells us. "And to accept that truth is to give a merciful gift to ourselves." As David reveals, so often our hearts break because the love we offer - whether to a partner, a friend, a child, or a place - is not returned to us in the same way. Yet if we retreat from experience of unrequited love, he says, we miss the opportunity to discover the countless invisible ways that the world offers us its love in return, often unlooked for and unrecognized.

Understanding heartbreak, says David Whyte, helps us to develop a more beautiful mind - a mind that embraces the hidden riches of life. We learn to apprentice ourselves to the great and small difficulties that test the edges of our identity and lead us into greater and greater understanding. With words to inspire laughter, courage, and deep reflection, David Whyte invites you to join him in the great conversation that takes us into the exquisite vulnerability of the unknown - the way a heartbreak can make us more humble, more aware, and expand our ability to love.

©2012 David Whyte (P)2012 David Whyte
Love Love, Dating & Attraction Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Personal Development Personal Success Poetry Relationships Themes & Styles Inspiring Relationships Heart Break
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Poignant Storytelling • Profound Reflections • Lyrical Poetry • Heartfelt Wisdom • Insightful Spirituality
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A perfect piece to remember the gift life is during the holidays

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Can be listened to over and over, David's delivery is full of rich tones, even laughter to set your path forward

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David Whyte is a poet, storyteller, and his wisdom penetrates into the heart — well, my heart. I can listen over and over and always hear something new.

Brilliant. Inspirational.

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David Whyte is one of my favorite poets. He speaks deeply and soulfully to life and all it's twists and turns.

David Whyte is a poetic world treasure!

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David Whyte discussing his poetry, his spirituality in the context of unrequited love and loss. Beautiful and breathtaking.

Transformative poetry

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a very enjoyable listen, and one of my very first contacts with david whyte. i'm pleasantly surprised

lots of precious little tidbits

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Touched, inspired to love, feeling and the richness of life and death. Well done, thank you

Exquisite

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Such a pleasure to hear David’s stories and poems. Immensely pleasurable and I will listen multiple times again for sure.
A true joy!

A true joy

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He has a powerfully rhythmic way of weaving and narrating truth and simplicity. Demands presence. Soulful and gratifying..

Wonderful.

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David Whyte is one of the best poets of our century. His words are made greater by the deeply moving, perceptive, and humorous voice with which he speaks on this entrancing audio.

Truly Great Poet

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