Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work and the Shaping of Identity

by David Whyte (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $12.50

  Our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth is in the thing we most often want to get away from: our work. It's where people spend the majority of their time, and it's where many spend much of it wishing they were somewhere else, doing something else. And it's where people often spend their time not being present, and not being themselves. Whyte points out that as human beings we are the one part of creation that can refuse to be itself. Our bodies can be present in our work, but our hearts, minds and imaginations can be placed firmly in neutral or engaged elsewhere . Being engaged elsewhere is damaging to our souls. Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reawakening the sleeping captain in us before that soul crashes on the rocks. The book takes us on the holiest of pilgrimages - to the centre of identity and the roots of growth.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $11.61

  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.