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Crossing the Unknown Sea David Whyte

Crossing the Unknown Sea By David Whyte

Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte


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An exploration of work as an opportunity for discovering and nurturing our deepest selves. We spend most of our time in the workplace - and what holds us back at work is what will hold us back the longest in terms of our personal development.

Crossing the Unknown Sea Summary

Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work and the Shaping of Identity by David Whyte

An exploration of work as an opportunity for discovering and nurturing our deepest selves. We spend most of our time in the workplace - and what holds us back at work is what will hold us back the longest in terms of our personal development. A blend of poetry, story-telling and experience, this book is about how we find fulfilment through work. The text applies the stages of a pilgrimage to the process of seeking identity through the unknown sea of work.

About David Whyte

David Whyte was born and grew up in Yorkshire. He is first and foremost a poet but also a consultant to many of the world's leading corporations. As well as 4 volumes of poetry he is the author of THE HEART AROUSED: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul at Work.

Table of Contents

Beginnings: courage and conversation - setting out with a firm persuasion; the mountain farm - a stranger at the door. Mid ocean: at the cliff edge of life - from powerlessness to participation; a star for navigation - ambition, horizon and arrival; out of Ireland - a short sea crossing. Arrivals: the awkward way to the Swan Walks - from exhaustion to wholeheartedness; the fatal shore - arrival and authenticity. Perspectives: outlaw imaginings - when the real you wants out; a marriage with silence - escaping the prison of time and work; crossing the unknown sea - a voyage through the hours of the day. Pilgrimage: Keats and conversation - the new and newly youthful world of work.

Additional information

GOR001649751
9780141005935
0141005939
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work and the Shaping of Identity by David Whyte
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20020926
272
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