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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 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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Many Rivers Press
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Dec 1 2014
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13.46 x 2.54 x 19.3 cm
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1932887369
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978-1932887365
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Many Rivers Press (Dec 1 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 245 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932887369
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932887365
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 431 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.46 x 2.54 x 19.3 cm

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Internationally acclaimed poet David Whyte makes his home in the Pacific Northwest, where rain and changeable skies remind him the other, more distant homes from which he comes: Yorkshire, Wales and Ireland. He travels and lectures throughout the world, bringing his own and others' poetry to large audiences.

He holds a degree in Marine Zoology, honorary degrees from Neumann University in Pennsylvania and Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, and is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of eight volumes of poetry and four books of prose, as well as a collection of audio recordings.

POETRY

The Sea in You (2015)

Pilgrim (2012)

River Flow: New & Selected Poems (2006)

Everything is Waiting for You (2003)

The House of Belonging (1996)

Fire in the Earth (1992)

PROSE

Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment & Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (2014)

The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship

Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

AUDIO LECTURES

Hidden Harvests: The Inner Seasons of Everyday Life

Solace: The Art of Asking the Beautiful Question

A Great Invitation: The Path of Risk and Revelation

Pilgrim Audio Companion

When the Heart Breaks

Sweet Darkness

A Change for the Better: Poetry and the Reimagination of Midlife

Midlife & the Great Unknown

The Echo in the Well

Making a Friend of the Unknown

The Poetry of Self Compassion

The Teacher's Vocation: Nurturing the Imagination of Others

Thresholds: Navigating the Difficult Transitions of Life

POETRY & MUSIC ALBUMS

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Grin Like A Dog

A must-read for anyone interested in the quest for the meaning of life.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 9, 2021

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Reading this book is a moving and spiritual exercise. I have always run up against the dogmatic intent of every religious text to which I have been introduced but, in Consolations, Whyte has given us a collection of spiritual suggestions that address the human condition for what it fundamentally is: a painfully beautiful struggle.

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Nourishment for the soul

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 12, 2020

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I really appreciate David Whyte's selection and perspective on words, even ones that may have a negative connotation. His work has deepened my appreciation on everything life has to offer. If you are looking to get a higher perspective; regain balance in life; and strengthen your connection with yourself/others/your surroundings then this book will help you on that journey. Thank you, David Whyte!

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Candace Kirby

Thank you David Whyte.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 20, 2019

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This book has to be tasted in bite size pieces and allowed to permeate all the hurt and confused places inside. It will stay by my bedside like a bedtime prayer.

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Cecelia Louis-Ralston

Profound New Understanding of Everyday Language

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 29, 2017

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I haven't gotten very far in this book yet, but what I have read has given me a profound understanding of the words we use in our everyday language. They now mean something deeper that Wikipedia could ever present.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 16, 2017

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Don't let your expectations go starry eyed. It is okay to see the author's perspective but there are no earth shaking revelations here.

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Mrs. Colleen M. Paul

Like Ann Lamott

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 6, 2015

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Like Ann Lamott, David Whyte transports me to a place of reflection and reveree. His writing is beautiful and requires an easy concentration. Recommended by the Brainpickings blog.

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The Gee

Beautiful writing style - simple

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 26, 2016

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Beautiful writing style - simple, clear and penetrating! The kind of book you do not read in one go. Mull it over, have on your bedside table. Something to keep going back to.

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Christine Borsuk

As promised!

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Joy Lenton

A poetic feast for the soul

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 21, 2019

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This beautiful, reflective book is great to revisit and dip into now and then when you want to be inspired and consoled. I'm still reading snippets from it when I feel the need for the author's insights and soothing poetic voice. It's good to have a fresh perspective on words which we are apt to take for granted or have only a sketchy awareness of their deeper meaning. And this lyrical book certainly opens your eyes to the way words speak to us. A poetic feast for the soul. I loved it!

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Moira

Beautiful, deep, reflective

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 1, 2015

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I love this book! It's a feast for the soul - lyrical, thought-provoking and profound. I've only recently come across David Whyte's work and I find both his prose and poetry really speaks to me. In 'Consolations' he takes everyday words and comes up with some amazing insights. Words that you use regularly without much thought suddenly take on tremendous depth, or meander along untrodden paths which you might never otherwise have taken. You can dip in and out of this book; use it for meditation or reflection or even as a basis for a discussion group. It'll make you pause and reflect ... something we don't do enough these days.

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Kali

A gift for the depths of our understanding of self....brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 12, 2018

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Wow! Consolations is brilliant. David manages to give us a gift of life love and whatever else that makes us understand ourselves in this world.
Words , mystical and he brings us alive into understanding from the depths of the heart. Especially in the break up of a relationship. I have found reading his poems at the right moment and have been helpful in my life...

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Catalina

Pure magic - a book to cherish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2017

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The poet at his best - as insightful as ever. It is pure magic as David Whyte finds his poetry in the conversational nature of reality (as he calls it).
A book to cherish.

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A joy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 15, 2018

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These are stimulating essays with much wisdom. I have found them illuminating and they have given me food for thought as well as clarifying aspects of my experience. A book to return to again and again. A joy.

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