Consolations : the solace, nourishment and underlying meaning of everyday words

The Resource Consolations : the solace, nourishment and underlying meaning of everyday words
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Consolations : the solace, nourishment and underlying meaning of everyday words
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the solace, nourishment and underlying meaning of everyday words
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David Whyte
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Language
eng
Summary
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
Cataloging source
JRG
Dewey number
158.1
Index
no index present
LC call number
BF637.C54
LC item number
W49 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Target audience
adult

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