Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
by 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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To state that I have completed reading this book is a fallacy. You can never complete reading this kind of books. You need to go back again and again to any random essay to find something very different from first pass. This is the book which has to be bought in hard copy and kept by your bedside or on your coffee table and perused again and again to extract all the wisdom the author has imparted.
good to read prose from a poet - as in non fiction from a novelist
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David Whyte is the author of the bestselling The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America and Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, as well as seven books of poetry, including River Flow: New Selected Poems. He lives on an island near Seattle, in the Pacific Northwest. Visit his website at show more www.davidwhyte.com. show less
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