In The Three Marriages, bestselling author, poet, and speaker David Whyte asks us to think about our work, relationships, and inner selves in a radically different way-by drawing them into a mutually supportive conversation.
According to Whyte, our vows to a significant other, to our work, and to our constantly evolving self 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 reimagine how we inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understanding.
Drawing from his own struggles and exploring the lives of some of the world's great writers and artists-from Dante to Jane Austen to Robert Louis Stevenson-Whyte shows the ways these core commitments are connected. 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.
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Publisher : Riverhead Books
Author : Whyte, David
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2010-01-05
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 159448435X
ISBN-13 : 9781594484353
Item weight : 0.71 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 5.12 in x 7.95 in
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