David Whyte

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.

The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

Consolations

The best-selling author of The Heart Aroused assesses the workplace in terms of opportunity for rediscovering, shaping, and nurturing our personal lives, as he applies the stages of a holy pilgrimage to the process of seeking one's identity through work. Reprint.

Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

Crossing the Unknown Sea

Explores the three most important commitments in an individual's life--to a significant other, to one's work, and to one's inner self--and discusses how they are connected and need to be nurtured equally.

Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

The Three Marriages

This is David Whyte's fourth book of poetry

Poems

The House of Belonging

Whyte and O'Donohue explore memory, change, loss, and our place in life.

Everything Is Waiting for You

When you think about personal transformation, do you have a picture of who you want to become? Many of us unconsciously create an idealized image of our “awakened” selves ― and in doing so, reveals David Whyte, we undermine both the work and reward of genuine transformation. In What to Remember When Waking, this celebrated poet and teacher offers wisdom for building the essential disciplines that will see us through the difficulties of our human journey ― skills of trust, vulnerability, momentum, and courage in the face of the unknown.

The Disciplines of an Everyday Life

What to Remember When Waking

Explaining how to transform the practical necessity of work into an opportunity for spiritual nourishment, a poet and corporate consultant argues that true success arises from working less on organizational matters and more on one's life. Reissue.

Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

The Heart Aroused

"It is not a coincidence that this book will slide easily into your jacket pocket; you'll want to keep it close for unexpected moments, those gifts of small, beckoning spaciousness amidst all our obligations and necessities. In addition to works written over a span of many years, plus one new poem and one new essay, the book contains David's personal reflections for many of the pieces, providing deeper context to its meaning. In some ways an artistic representation of a close circle of companionship to the work and to the man : edited by his wife, and designed and typeset by close friends Edward Wates and John Nielson, the book forms an elegant testament to David Whyte's most closely-held understanding - that human life cannot be apportioned out as one thing or another; rather, it is best lived as a living conversation, a way between and beyond, made beautiful by darkness as well as light, at its essence both deeply solitary and profoundly communal."--publisher's description.

David Whyte Essentials

Poet and author David Whyte looks at the fruitful discipline of finding and asking ever keener and more beautiful questions throughout our lives. These questions ask us to reimagine ourselves, our world and our part in it, and have the potential to reshape our identities, helping us to become larger, more generous and more courageous, equal to the fierce invitations extended to us as we grow and mature.

Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love

The Sea in You

Contains over 100 poems selected from five previously published works, together with 23 new poems. Planted firmly in the natural world, David Whyte invites readers to join him on the path and admonishes us to get down on our hands and knees in the thicket to find our own way.

New & Selected Poems, 1984-2007

River Flow

This is David Whyte's third book of poetry. Now in its 5th printing.

Fire in the Earth

The Bell and the Blackbird

"In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself suddenly without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry has held a special power to hazard ourselves boldly at the fierce edges of our lives. On Midlife and the Great Unknown, you will engage with poetic imagination as it was meant to be as your companion and guide for the challenging terrain of midlife.

Midlife and the Great Unknown

Clear Mind, Wild Heart

This edited collection looks at corruption in different arms of the British state, and calls for fundamental political change.

David Whyte

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