THE THREE MARRIAGES: REIMAGINING WORK, SELF AND RELATIONSHIP
Book ID/图书代码： 12844008B30133
English Summary/英文概要： Drawing from his own experience and the lives of some of the world’s great writers and poets, David Whyte brings compelling insights to our three most important commitments— to another, to our work, and to ourselves—to frame a complete picture of a satisfying life.
David Whyte knows there are three crucial relationships, or marriages, in our lives: the marriage or partnership with a significant other, the commitment we have to our work, and the vows, spoken or unspoken, we make to an inner, constantly developing self. In The Three Marriages, the bestselling author, poet, and speaker argues that it is not possible to sacrifice one relationship for the others without causing deep psychological damage. Too often, he says, we fracture our lives and split our energies foolishly, so that one or more of these marriages is sacrificed and may wither and die, in the process impoverishing them all. Whyte looks to a different way of seeing and connecting these relationships and prompts us to examine each marriage with a fierce but affectionate eye as he shows us the importance of cherishing all three equally.
Drawing from his own struggles to achieve this goal as well as exploring the lives of some of the world’s great writers and activists—from Dante to Joan of Arc, from Austen to Dickinson—Whyte reveals that our core commitments are irrevocably connected. Only by understanding the simultaneously robust and delicate nature of the three marriages and the stages of their maturation, he maintains, can we create a real portrait of what makes us tick and a real sense of finding a place in the world.
In prose that’s at once lyrical and inviting, Whyte investigates captivating ideas for bringing a deeper satisfaction to our lives, one that goes beyond our previously held ideas of balance.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 根据自身经历以及世界一些著名作家和诗人的生活经历，大卫•怀特带来了对于我们人生最重要的三项契约的完全见解-----对于他人，工作，以及我们自己，摄取了一副美好生活的图片。
大卫•怀特明白，在我们的一生中，有三段关键的关系，或者说，是三段婚姻：与重要他人，工作中的许诺，以及誓约。无论那是口头的或默许的，我们因此而不断地成长变化。本书中，畅销作者，诗人，演说家指出，要牺牲一段联系去成全另一段而不受伤害是不可能的。他表示，我们通常会傻傻的破坏掉我们的生活，分散掉自己的精力，因此，一段或更多这样子的“婚姻”沦为牺牲品，并渐渐枯竭直至消失。怀特对建立这种关联有着不同见解，并提醒我们以残酷但却充满爱的观念来审视每段关系，就如同他向我们展示的平等的珍爱这三段关系的重要性是一样的。
由自身的奋斗成功经历，加上对世界一些著名人士如但丁，贞德，奥斯汀，狄更斯生活的探究，怀特指出，我们的核心承诺是无可取消的，只有同时理解了这三段婚姻的含义，并了解它们的发展阶段，才能真正理解我们存在于这个世界的真正意义。(zh)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Born to an Irish mother, David Whyte grew up among the hills and valleys of Yorkshire. He is the author of the bestselling books The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America and Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity and seven collections of poetry. Whyte is Associate Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford University.
大卫•怀特（David Whyte），母亲是爱尔兰人，他从小便生活在布满山川河谷的约克郡，他是畅销书The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America and Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity and seven collections of poetry的作者，他还是牛津大学邓普顿学院的外籍院士。
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