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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. Alone -- Ambition -- Anger -- Beauty -- Beginning -- Besieged -- Confession -- Courage -- Crisis -- Denial -- Despair -- Destiny -- Disappointment -- Forgiveness -- Friendship -- Genius -- Giving -- Gratitude -- Ground -- Haunted -- Heartbreak -- Help -- Hiding -- Honesty -- Istanbul -- Joy -- Loneliness -- Longing -- Maturity -- Memory -- Naming -- Nostalgia -- Pain -- Parallels -- Pilgrim -- Procrastination -- Regret -- Rest -- Robustness -- Rome -- Run Away -- Self-knowledge -- Shadow -- Shyness -- Silence -- Solace -- Touch -- Unconditional -- Unrequited -- Vulnerability -- Withdrawal -- Work. 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. After many years of revising the essays, author David Whyte has published this revised edition of his well loved book. In addition to sharper versions of many of the essays, it contains an additional piece, CLOSE: To consciously become close is a form of unilateral disarmament, a chancing of our arm and our love, a willingness to hazard our affections and an unconscious declaration that we might be equal to the inevitable loss that the vulnerability of being close will bring.