This bestselling author of The Heart Aroused and internationally renowned Fortune 500 consultant explores work as an opportunity for discovering, shaping, and nurturing our deepest selves.When our work is right for us and it gives back to the world, when we develop, as the poet William Blake said, "a firm persuasion," we feel we can move mountains. Maybe we've felt this way only for a moment, maybe some feel this way all the time, or maybe some have never felt this way. But a sense of fulfillment is possible for all of us, and David Whyte can show us how to restore it to our lives. Whyte applies the stages of a holy pilgrimage to the process of seeking identity through the unknown sea of work. These are: • Longing for refuge • Finding the strength to begin the journey • Desiring growth • Overcoming obstacles • Avoiding distractions • Connecting-meeting and traveling with others with a common purpose • Helping others-a desire to bring hope and help to those left behindWe may think of family, relationships, friends, religion, or spiritual practice as the domains in which the soul is refined, in which our   identities are nurtured and shaped. But we overlook the area in which we spend the majority of our time: work. As Whyte indicates, what holds us back at work is what will hold us back the longest in our life's development. Crossing the Unknown Sea illustrates how to embrace the opportunity that work provides for us to begin to inhabit fully our individuality and maximize our creativity.

Crossing the Unknown Sea

Religion & Spirituality

David Whyte

New Age & Spirituality

Penguin Uk

A set of four titles in slipcase, All four books are in excellent condition as is the slipcase also.

A Quartet: Boxed Set Containing: Songs for Coming Home, Where Many Rivers Meet, Fire in the Earth, the House of Belonging

Many Rivers Press

The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished (Key Ideas in Criminology)

Steve Tombs

Routledge

In The Three Marriages, David Whyte, the bestselling author, poet, and speaker, asks you to think about your significant relationship to your partner, your work and your inner self in a radically different way by drawing them into a mutually supportive conversation. According to Whyte, we humans are involved not just with one marriage with a significant other. We also have made secret vows to our work and unspoken vows to an inner, constantly developing self. These Three Marriages constantly surprise us, and they demand larger and renewed dedication as the years go by. Whyte’s thesis is that to separate these marriages in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself; that in each of these marriages, will, effort, and hard work are overused, overrated, and in many ways self-defeating. Happiness, Whyte says, is possible, but only if we re-imagine how we inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understanding. Whyte argues that it is not possible to sacrifice one marriage for any of the others without causing deep psychological damage. He looks to a different way of seeing and bringing these relationships together and invites us to examine each marriage with a fierce but affectionate eye as he shows the nonnegotiable nature at the core of each commitment. Only by understanding the journey involved in each of the Three Marriages and the stages of their maturation, he says, can we understand how to bring them together in one fulfilled life.

Three Marriages, The

Self-Help

Motivational

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Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work And the Shaping of Identity

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Essentials

CANONGATE BOOKS *

A powerful guide to thinking and managing your way into the new economy. A how to think book for practicing managers.

Navigating Complexity: The Essential Guide to Complexity theory in Business and Management

Business & Money

Spiro Press

The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in the New Workplace

Job Hunting & Careers

Articulate Press

A talk by poet David Whyte. Single disc. The people, places, communities and events in our lives can be gateways to the unknown. Using poetry, humor and insightful commentary, David Whyte looks at a long tradition that suggests creation is breathlessly waiting for us to take out place in the conversation, whether on the grand stage of political events or the humble kitchen garden of our own home.

Making a Friend of the Unknown

A talk by poet and author David Whyte. Single disc. Using poetry, humor and insightful commentary, David Whyte speaks to why educating children is not simply about preparing them to succeed in a career or make their car payment. Instead, real education should include nurturing the field of imagination that lives in each one of us and provides our surest compass as we move through life. Although this talk was given to a group of educators, it is both fascinating and inspiring for anyone interested in the role and importance of the imagination.

The Teacher's Vocation: Nurturing the Imagination of Others

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