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Consolations

The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

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Consolations

By: David Whyte, Maria Popova - introduction
Narrated by: David Whyte
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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.

 Philosophy Spirituality Meditation
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Critic reviews

"Keep this book by your bedside forever. I know I will" (ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT PRAY LOVE)
"Consolations, it bears repeating, is an absolutely magnificent read — the kind that reorients your world and remains a compass for a lifetime" (MARIA POPOVA)
"We think we know what we are talking about, the meaning of things, the basic rules of language, until we read David Whyte’s Consolations where we are forced to reassess everything and begin again. Such an essential and beautiful book’" (NICK CAVE)
"A word can know you better than you know yourself and I did not fully understand this until I read Consolations. It is an immensely powerful book. It is an extraordinary book . . . You will want to keep it forever" (LEMN SISSAY)
"Sometimes a book you had never heard of resonates so profoundly that it leaves you wondering how you hadn't come across it. This is such a book, one that shakes you to the core and speaks to you in an intimate aside, a considered whisper that echoes through your days long after you turned the last page . . . Fully aware and observant"
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Very profound and poetic book. Written with lots of love and kindness towards human nature.

Beautifully written!

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Even just to listen to the voice of the author sometimes. The only remark: there is a spelling mistake in the title of the chapter “LonEliness”.

Really enjoyed.

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I love every single word in it, they all feel so true and so compassionate 🙏

The most beautiful and accessible invitation to contemplation I have ever heard 🙏

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This book is exquisitely profound and speaks directly to the part of our minds, souls and hearts that wants to live more honestly and wholeheartedly. It brought me to tears a number of times and is essential reading for those of us who would like to release ourselves from what David Whyte calls the “busy periphery“ of our lives and begin to engage with ourselves and with others in a more authentic, living and fuller way.

Breathtakingly beautiful

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Whether you listen to this as a daily insight or reflection, or all in one go and revisit different words to meditate on, this book is a wonder for all of us looking and finding meaning in the words we inhabit in our lives as human beings.

Decoding words into their wisdoms

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