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 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.
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Consolations
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Philosophy History & TheoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Also by David Whyte
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Alone
- Ambition
- Anger
- Beauty
- Beginning
- Besieged
- Close
- 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
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