Name: Poem By David Whyte For John O'Donohue, music Secret Garden, voice M.J. Hummingway by M.J. Hummingway
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Here you can listen to Derek Walcott's poem recited by Kabat-Zinn, saying a prose statement was "bound to be inadequate" in communicating his point.

Read the full poem at http://www.onbeing.org/program/opening-our-lives/138

"Love After Love" by Derek Walcott (Read by Jon Kabat-Zinn)

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Poem By David Whyte For John O'Donohue, music Secret Garden, voice M.J. Hummingway

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/24/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/

Recorded by the Lannan Foundation in 2001.

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Mary Oliver reads "Wild Geese"

Often quoted, but rarely interviewed, Mary Oliver is one of our greatest and most beloved poets. She’s just released a new volume, Felicity, at the age of 80. And so we’re revisiting the interview she granted us earlier this year on the wisdom of the world, the salvation of poetry, and the life behind her writing.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/7267

Mary Oliver — Listening to the World

David Whyte reads his poem "Everything Is Waiting for You." 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/8560

"Everything Is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads "Vulnerability," an excerpt from his book "Consolations." 

"Vulnerability" by David Whyte

Background, context, and full text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/11/david-whyte-vulnerability/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

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David Whyte reads "Vulnerability"

Poet and philosopher David Whyte discusses his inner life and the importance of loneliness: "I've always felt that when you do feel loneliness, it's always a kind of inverse measure of what you actually belong to." Part three of The Lonely Hour's mini-series, Inner Lives. 

Original illustration by Payton Cosell Turner.

#33 How Loneliness Tells You Where to Go, with David Whyte

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/11/12/walt-whitman-song-of-the-open-road

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Maria Popova reads from "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman

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Poem By David Whyte For John O'Donohue, music Secret Garden, voice M.J. Hummingway

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