Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

by David Whyte

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932887342
• ISBN13: 9781932887341
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Many Rivers Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.5"