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

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

By: David Whyte
Narrated by: David Whyte
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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.

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 listeners 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.

©2014 David Whyte (P)2019 David Whyte
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A rational journey into the existential.
The words about the words coaxing us to see ourselves during an immersive state of deep thought about these precious sounds we use to communicate.

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