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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

David Whyte

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With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life. Beginning with Alone and closing with Work, each chapter is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on the inevitable vicissitudes of life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling besieged and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness the appropriate confusion and helplessness that accompanies the first stage of revelation. Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Many Rivers Press
  • Publish Date: Dec 1st, 2014
  • Pages: NA
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.50in - 5.20in - 0.80in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9781932887341
  • Categories: • Essays• Language• Personal Growth - General

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heARTist & founder @ReNewBusiness© where we create work cultures like a piece of art. Ph.D, Pharm.D, Artist, Scientist, Alchemist, Poet.

GRATITUDE is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us. …. from ‘GRATITUDE’ In CONSOLATIONS - David Whyte

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Sarah Thankam Mathews is an author.

@BrandyLJensen lover's discourse, barthes. the heartbreak chapter in consolations by david whyte. unrequited by lisa phillips was an interesting read, tho i wouldn't call it a favorite. and crush by richard siken totally counts, in my book

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Helping people in leadership positions flourish — with wisdom and clarity of thought

[2/2] “... the self-forgetfulness that occurs when it meets something other than the self it wanted to know.” — David Whyte, in ‘Self-knowledge' (published in ‘Consolations,’ Many Rivers Press, 2015)

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