Consolations : the solace, nourishment and underlying meaning of everyday words
David Whyte (Author)
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
Nonfiction
245 pages ; 21 cm
9781932887365, 9781932887341, 1932887369, 1932887342
903907110
Alone
Ambition
Anger
Beauty
Beginning
Besieged
Confession
Courage
Crisis
Denial
Despair
Destiny
Disappointment
Forgiveness
Friendship
Genius
Giving
Gratitude
Ground
Haunted
Heartbreak
Help
Hiding
Honesty
Istanbul
Joy
Loneliness
Longing
Maturity
Memory
Naming
Nostalgia
Pain
Parallels
Pilgrim
Procrastination
Regret
Rest
Robustness
Rome
Run away
Self-knowledge
Shadow
Shyness
Silence
Solace
Touch
Unconditional
Unrequited
Vulnerability
Withdrawal
Work