Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words Audiobook (Free)

In Consolations David Whyte unpacks areas of being human being that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid – reduction, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear – boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, by no means shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning.

You start with ‘Alone’ and shutting with ‘Withdrawal’, each chapter in this life-affirming publication is certainly a meditation on indicating and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: discomfort and joy, credibility and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from everything. Through this zoom lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an work of independence; and shyness a thing that accompanies the first stage of revelation.

Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of phrases whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.