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Title: The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte ISBN: 0-385-48418-6 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: In My Mind: A Classic
Comment: This book is already on the way to becoming a well known classic now but I first encountered it in a very private and personal way at a crucial time in my life when it first appeared a few years ago. I felt very thankful then that someone had been able to speak to the hidden qualities of my work life and set me on more of a courageous path as a result. Having just reread it I realize now why it had such a profound effect on me: The Heart Aroused really does speak to a person whatever threshold of life they might find themselves on. A hearty recommendation then to anyone wondering about the hopes raised by the title, it more than fullfils its promise.
Rating: 5
Summary: "What profit a man...."
Comment: Frankly, I found this to be an especially demanding book even when reading it for a second time. Whyte requires of his reader a rigorous as well as truthful self-exploration, and in ways and to an extent few other authors do. As is so often true in other dimensions of human experience, the benefits derived from reading his book are almost wholly dependent upon how much is personally invested in it. As Whyte explains, he wrote this book "hoping it would be read in two ways. First, as a good story about the difficulties and dramas of preserving the soul at work -- in short, a page-turner; second, as a book that could be studied, contemplated, and discussed with others." More than 50 years ago, Mortimer Adler affirmed the value of reading the "great books" because they stimulate and enrich what he called "a conversation across the centuries." I think this is what Whyte has in mind when providing, in the book's final section (a "User's Guide"), a number of thoughts for reflection and discussion as well as for self-questioning. For example: "What is my heart's desire in life? What are some of the particularities of the way I like to live? What are the essential qualities that give me a sense of belonging? How can work be a good servant to my essential nature instead of a taskmaster?" As I now reflect on this book after a second reading, I think its greatest value lies not only in the truth of what Whyte expresses so eloquently but also in what his assertions and questions require his readers to consider as they seek spiritual fulfillment in their own lives. Those who my high regard for this book are urged to read Whyte's other books, especially Crossing the Unknown: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity and Fire in the Earth; also, to check out David Maister's Practice What You Preach and Tim Sanders' Love Is the Killer App as well as Eliyahu M. Goldratt's The Goal, Critical Acclaim, and It's Not Luck.
Rating: 2
Summary: Couldn't get through it...just too boring
Comment: I tried to hang with this book as long as possible, but finally gave up. The writing is murky, laden with obscure metaphors, and quite a chore to get through. I had high hopes for this book, since I am an English major who is equally interested in corporate life and poetry. But I finally lost patience with the author's pretentious, pointless prose. Two stars.
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Title: Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work As a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte ISBN: 1573229148 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: House of Belonging by David Whyte ISBN: 0962152439 Publisher: Many Rivers Pr Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Where Many Rivers Meet: Poems by David Whyte ISBN: 0962152412 Publisher: Many Rivers Pr Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Fire in the Earth by David Whyte ISBN: 0962152420 Publisher: Many Rivers Pr Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace by Alan Briskin ISBN: 157675040X Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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