Consolations

The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

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Consolations

By: David Whyte

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 truth.

Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Work', each chapter in this life-affirming audiobook 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 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.

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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.