Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin David Whyte - ON LOVE
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Feb 13, 2026 
David Whyte, Irish poet and philosopher known for lyric, meditative work, performs poems and reflects on love’s transforming charge. He explores falling for ideals, vulnerability as invitation, unrequited longing as rehearsal, and stepping beyond the self into courage and belonging. Intimate readings and stories about risking everything for a fuller life.
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Ideal Love Transforms Identity
- Romantic love initially lifts you out of your ordinary self by offering an ideal that destabilizes identity.
- Mature love keeps the ideal but allows the beloved their own life and growth.
Invite Mutual Vulnerability
- Invite vulnerability and mutual invitation when forming a relationship.
- Allow your wound-based openness to meet the other's way of being without trying to control it.
Walking Into A New Life
- After leaving his second marriage, David Whyte drove to a remote spot and felt able to 'walk straight off into the thin air' of a new life.
- That experience became a poem and symbolized falling in love with his life again.
