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Consolations
- Author
- David Whyte
- Narrator
- David Whyte
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 18 January 2018
- Run Time
- 3 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Popular philosophy
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What to expect
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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Details
- Author
- David Whyte
- Narrator
- David Whyte
- Duration
- 3 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 January 2018
- ISBN
- 9781838850340
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Popular philosophy
Synopsis
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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