- Title:
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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
- Written by:
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David Whyte
- Read by:
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David Whyte
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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3
- Duration:
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3 hours 35 minutes
- Published:
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December 01 2019
- Available Date:
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December 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655639626
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Philosophy
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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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.
In Consolations, David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid – loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear – boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning.
Beginning with 'alone' and closing with 'withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed 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 something that accompanies the first stage of revelation.
'Consolations, it bears repeating, is an absolutely magnificent read – the kind that reorients your world and remains a compass for a lifetime.'
Maria Popova
'A word can know you better than you know yourself and I did not fully understand this until I read Consolations. It is an immensely powerful book. It is an extraordinary book … You will want to keep it forever.'
Lemn Sissay