The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
Whyte argues that the commitments to a person, to work and to your own interior life cannot be balanced against one another, only lived at the same time.
Whyte argues that the commitments to another person, to work, and to one’s own interior life are three marriages that cannot be balanced against each other, only lived at once. He reads Dickinson, Austen and Stevenson as case studies rather than illustrations. The word marriage is deliberate: each demands vows, and each will be betrayed at some point by whoever is trying to keep all three.
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In The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship (public library), poet and philosopher David Whyte captures the terror and transcendence we are hurled into as we encounter, without looking for it, “a degree of mutually encoded knowledge” with another person that touches the center of our being and discomposes the superstructure of life as we know it.
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