A Troubled Guest on the Dark Earth

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A troubled guest is someone who doesn't know how to receive the hospitality of the world. There's nothing worse than a troubled guest, some one you invite to dinner or t the house and they don't know where to put themselves. We often be like that in lifeand so there's a necessary shyness in a proper guest. To become human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. You are not an accident amidst other accidents. So this starts to address that anxiety. The ability not to be a troubled guest on the surf, to go to an untroubled place inside yourself from which you can look at your troubles and anxieties and difficulties.

David Whyte is a poet and author who also leads the Many Rivers Organization and Invitas, the Institute for Conversational Leadership, which he founded in 2014. David is the author of many poetry collection and prose books, including his newest book, Still Possible

In this episode, Eric and David discuss several of David’s beautiful poems from his latest collection, as well as some of his older work.

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David Whyte and I Discuss The Art of Poetry and Prose and…

His book, Still Possible
His poem, Your Prayer
The metaphor of a doorway, and how it can be a barrier or an opening in your life
Beautiful forgetting and how we can get out of and then into ourselves
How depression is a form of stuckness
Asking yourself how invitational you are to the people in your life
His book, The Three Marriages
How poetry is the art of saying things you didn’t know you knew
His poem, The Road to Santiago
How our reluctances are doorways to connection to other people
Anxiety and how it is a kind of staticness
How not knowing is great intimacy
The importance of silence and rest