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Beauty does not linger, it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation
affects us and invites us into its rhythm, it calls us to feel,
think, and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life
that awakens the Beautiful.
Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. Bestselling author
John O'Donohue opens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of
our own relationship with beauty by exposing the infinity and
mystery of its breadth. His words return us to the dignity of
silence, profundity of stillness, power of thought and perception,
and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this
masterful and revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater
intimacy with beauty and celebrates it for what it really is: a
homecoming of the human spirit. As he focuses on the classical,
medieval, and Celtic traditions of art, music, literature, nature,
and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's invisible embrace
invites us toward new heights of passion and creativity even in
these uncertain times of global conflict and crisis.
From the beloved author of the bestselling "To Bless the Space
Between Us" and "Anam Cara "comes a new work that shares his
insights on nature and the ancient wisdom of this earth.
John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now
classic work on Celtic spirituality "Anam Cara." Unfortunately he
died suddenly at age fifty-two just as his book of blessings, "To
Bless the Space Between Us," was being published. The loss of his
powerfully wise and lyrical voice has been profoundly missed, but
his many readers are given a special opportunity to revisit John in
a new book based on a series of papers he wrote on the elements of
water, stone, air, and fire, now published here for the first time.
O'Donohue's readers know him as both a spiritual guide and a poet,
and in this work he exhibits both qualities, sharing his Celtic
heritage and his love for his native landscape in the west of
Ireland. As O'Donohue explores a range of themes relating to the
way we live our lives today, he reveals how the energy and rhythm
of the natural world--its innocence and creativity, its power and
splendor--hold profound lessons for us all. With a foreword written
by his beloved brother, Pat, this illuminating book is an inspired
reflection on the ancient wisdom of the earth.
There is a divine restlessness in the human heart, our eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are. In this exquisitely crafted and inspirational book, John O'Donohue, author of the bestseller Anam Cara, explores the most basic of human desires - the desire to belong, a desire that constantly draws us toward new possibilities of self-discovery, friendship, and creativity.
The perfect gift for anyone in your life, or a wonderful source of
comfort for the self - this is a wonderfully heartfelt collection
of thoughts and blessings that will heal, inspire, comfort and
move. When you need a poem or a blessing to find strength, whatever
the occasion, this is a rich source - and something to be turned to
time and time again... 'This book is golden' -- ***** Reader review
'Every family should have a copy of this book on their shelf' --
***** Reader review 'What a perfect companion to the challenges
that come from being human' -- ***** Reader review 'A beautiful
book that I keep sharing with others' -- ***** Reader review 'A
book you will pick up time and time again for inspiration, for
comfort and to be uplifted' -- ***** Reader review
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'We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand
before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to
protect, encourage and guide us as we cross over into the unknown.
For such crossings, we need to find new words. What is nearest to
the heart is often farthest from the word. This book is an attempt
to reach into that tenuous territory of change that we must
cross...' In sharing words of profound grace and wisdom, master
storyteller John O'Donohue - author of the international bestseller
Anam Cara - offers in Benedictus blessings to shelter us as we
confront the many challenges we face on our journey through life.
We are living in an anxious world - a world so often dominated by
unwelcome change, unhappiness, uncertainty and even despair. Now,
more than ever, we need this collection of blessings and thoughts,
covering areas such as Beginnings, Desires, States of the Heart,
Callings and Beyond Endings - it is a vision of hope and belonging
for this sometimes troubled world. There are blessings in this book
- for birthdays, anniversaries, deaths and many more. Some are
long, some are short but all touch the heart.
From the author of the bestselling "Anam Cara" comes a beautiful
collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday
and the extraordinary events of their lives.
John O'Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for
his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words
of inspiration and wisdom for today. In "To Bless the Space Between
Us, " his compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and
spiritual insight offers readers comfort and encouragement on their
journeys through life. O'Donohue looks at life's
thresholds--getting married, having children, starting a new
job--and offers invaluable guidelines for making the transition
from a known, familiar world into a new, unmapped territory. Most
profoundly, however, O'Donohue explains "blessing" as a way of
life, as a lens through which the whole world is transformed.
O'Donohue awakens readers to timeless truths and shows the power
they have to answer contemporary dilemmas and ease us through
periods of change.
In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John
O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings.
Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Celtic tradition and the
rugged, majestic landscape of his birth, the west of Ireland, here
he also creates a unique vision of a place and time, and the echo
of a memory that will never fade.
In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers
Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to
the subject of beauty - the divine beauty that calls the
imagination and awakens all that is noble in the human heart. In
these uncertain times of global conflict and crisis, we are riven
with anxiety; our trust in the future has lost its innocence, for
we know now that anything can happen from one second to the next.
In such an unsheltered world, it may sound naive to suggest that
this might be the moment to invoke and awaken beauty, yet this is
exactly the claim that this book seeks to explore. DIVINE BEAUTY is
a gentle but urgent call to awaken. O'Donohue opens our eyes,
hearts and minds to the wonder of our own relationship with beauty.
Rather than 'covering' this theme, he uncovers it, exposing the
infinity and mystery of its breadth. His words return us home to
the dignity of silence, the profundity of stillness, the power of
thought and perception, and the eternal grace and generosity of
beauty's presence. In this masterful and revelatory work, O'Donohue
encourages our greater intimacy with beauty, and celebrates it for
what it really is: a homecoming of the human spirit. As he focuses
on the classical, medieval and Celtic traditions, on art, music,
literature, nature and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's
invisible embrace invites us towards new heights of passion and
creativity. DIVINE BEAUTY is an exquisite treasury of Forms of the
Beautiful. Its surface employs narrative, image, anecdote and myth,
while into the silence of its subtext are sown seeds of reflection
that gradually blossom in the heart.
John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now
classic work on Celtic spirituality, "Anam Cara." Just as "To Bless
the Space Between Us" was being published, he died suddenly at the
age of fifty-two. His powerfully wise and lyrical voice is
profoundly missed, but his many readers are now given a special
opportunity to revisit John in his first book, a collection of
poetry.
O'Donohue's readers know him as both a spiritual guide and a poet.
In the same spirit as his bestselling works, readers will be
inspired yet again by John's depth of wisdom and artistry.
A beautiful companion to To Bless the Space Between Us--a new
collection of insights from the most charismatic and inspirational
spiritual writers of the last twenty years. John O'Donohue is
recognised by many as being one of the most charismatic and
inspirational writers of his day on the subjects of spirituality
and Celtic mysticism. This latest offering is a poignant and
inspirational collection of conversations and presentation from
O'Donohue's work with close friend and former radio broadcaster
John Quinn. These timeless exchanges, collated and introduced by
Quinn, span a number of years and explore themes such as
imagination, landscape, the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart,
ageing, and death. Presented in O'Donohue's inimitable lyrical
style, and filled with rich insights that will feed the
"unprecedented spiritual hunger" he observed in modern society,
Walking in Wonder is a welcome tribute to a much-loved author whose
work still touches the lives of millions around the world.
Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a
language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John
O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined
worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and
Distances -- "Conamara Blues" at once reawakens a sense of intimacy
with the natural world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of
our relationship to this world. Whether exploring the silent,
eternal memory of Conamara or focusing on the power of language and
the vagaries of human need and passion, O'Donohue tenderly reveals
the fragile vulnerability of love and friendship. The result is a
musical, transcendent, and deeply moving series of poems that
exemplifies O'Donohue at his finest.
Written with penetrating insight and distilled transparence,
"Conamara Blues" offers a singular and lasting imaginative vision
of a landscape of hope and possibility -- powerfully exhibiting the
mastery of a poet at the height of his lyric powers.
There is a divine restlessness in the human heart today, an eternal
echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle
for what we have or where we are. Now, in this exquisitely crafted,
inspirational book, John O'Donohue explores that most basic of
human desires - the desire to belong. It is a desire that
constantly draws us towards new possibilities of self-discovery,
friendship and creativity. In Eternal Echoes John O'Donohue embarks
upon a journey of discovery into the heart of our post-modern world
- a hungry, homeless world that suffers from a deep sense of
isolation and fragmentation. With the thousand-year-old shelter of
divine belonging now shattered, we seem to have lost our way in
this magical, wondrous universe. Here, as we explore perennial
themes and gain insight from a range of ancient beliefs, we draw
inspiration from Ireland's rich spiritual heritage of Celtic
thought and imagination. It is a heritage of profound, mystical
wisdom that will open pathways to peace and contentment, and lead
us to live with creativity, honour and compassion the one life that
has been given to us. Destined to become a timeless classic of
vision and hope, this is an imaginative tour de force by one of
today's most inspirational writers.
The loss we feel when a loved one dies is profound, often
accompanied by regret for all that we didn't say or do. Such regret
can hinder emotional growth and create wounds that affect all other
aspects of our lives. But loss doesn't necessarily mean the end of
a connection with a loved one. In fact, it can open the doors to a
unique relationship that offers intimacy, healing, and renewal. In
The Infinite Thread, author Alexandra Kennedy helps us deal with
loss in a powerful new way: by using active imagination, letters,
and inner dialogue to re-create and heal past relationships. In
doing so, we also amend the often-strained ties with those still
living. The Infinite Thread strips away the veils of mystery
surrounding death and transcends preconceptions about death and
dying. Rich with opportunities for reflection, it brings enormous
comfort to anyone who has ever lost a loved one or been faced with
their own mortality.
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