Everything Is Waiting for You

Everything Is Waiting for You PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962152467
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Higher Is Waiting

Higher Is Waiting PDF Author: Tyler Perry
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812989341
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
In this intimate book of inspiration, Tyler Perry writes of how his faith has sustained him in hard times, centered him in good times, and enriched his life. Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers to climb higher in their own lives and pull themselves up to a better, more fulfilling place. Beginning with his earliest memories of growing up a shy boy in New Orleans, Perry recalls the moments of grace and beauty in a childhood marked by brutality, deprivation, and fear. With tenderness he sketches portraits of the people who sustained him and taught him indelible lessons about integrity, trust in God, and the power of forgiveness: his aunt Mae, who cared for her grandfather, who was born a slave, and sewed quilts that told a story of generations; Mr. Butler, a blind man of remarkable dignity and elegance, who sold penny candies on a street corner; and his beloved mother, Maxine, who endured abuse, financial hardship, and the daily injustices of growing up in the Jim Crow South yet whose fierce love for her son burned bright and never dimmed. Perry writes of how he nurtured his dreams and discovered solace in nature, and of his resolute determination to reach ever higher. Perry vividly and movingly describes his growing awareness of God’s presence in his life, how he learned to tune in to His voice, to persevere through hard times, and to choose faith over fear. Here he is: the devoted son, the loving father, the steadfast friend, the naturalist, the philanthropist, the creative spirit—a man whose life lessons and insights into scripture are a gift offered with generosity, humility, and love.

The Bell and the Blackbird

The Bell and the Blackbird PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932887471
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Poetry, including a chapter of blessings and prayers, a section of small, haiku-inspired poems, and an homage to Pulitzer Prize-winner poet Mary Oliver. The sound / of a bell / still reverberating. Or a blackbird / calling / from a corner / of a / field. Asking you / to wake / into this life / or inviting you / deeper / to one that waits. Either way / takes courage, / either way wants you / to be nothing / but that self that / is no self at all.

River Flow: New and Selected Poems (Revised (Revised)

River Flow: New and Selected Poems (Revised (Revised) PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932887273
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This newly revised edition contains the most up to date versions of poems from David's first five volumes of poetry: Songs for Coming Home, Where Many Rivers Meet, Fire in the Earth, The House of Belonging and Everything is Waiting for You, as well as the latest versions of the new poems that originally appeared in the first edition of River Flow.

The House of Belonging

The House of Belonging PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962152436
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is David Whyte's fourth book of poetry

The Peace of Wild Things

The Peace of Wild Things PDF Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141987138
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover and grass to be pasture. The fowls singing and then settling for the night. Bright, silent, thousands of stars. You come into the peace of simple things. From the author of the 'compelling' and 'luminous' essays of The World-Ending Fire comes a slim volume of poems. Tender and intimate, these are consoling songs of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging. They celebrate and elevate what is sensuous about life, and invite us to pause and appreciate what is good in life, to stop and savour our fleeting moments of earthly enjoyment. And, when fear for the future keeps us awake at night, to come into the peace of wild things.

David Whyte Essentials

David Whyte Essentials PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932887501
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
"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.

Fire in the Earth

Fire in the Earth PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962152429
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Consolations

Consolations PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786897644
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning. Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed 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 something 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.

Pilgrim

Pilgrim PDF Author: David Whyte
Publisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN: 9781932887259
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93

Book Description
David Whyte's 7th volume of poetry
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