In this gorgeous and provocative essay, the Irish poet David Whyte, author of The Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage to Identity and many other books, muses on ten questions that can shape a mindful life:
- Do I know how to have real conversation?
- What can I be wholehearted about?
- Am I harvesting from this year’s season of life?
- Where is the temple of my adult aloneness?
- Can I be quiet—even inside?
- Am I too inflexible in my relationship to time?
- How can I know what I am actually saying?
- How can I drink from the deep well of things as they are?
- Can I live a courageous life?
- Can I be the blessed saint that my future happiness will always remember?
Read his beautiful musings on each question here.