He was born in 1956 in County Clare in western Ireland. John O’Donohue’s final work was To Bless the Space Between Us, published posthumously. I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.Īnam Ċara was published in 1997, and it became an international bestseller. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008, but John O’Donohue’s voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner human landscape and what he called “the invisible world” constantly intertwining with what we can know and see. He insisted on beauty as a human calling. Krista Tippett, host: No conversation I’ve ever had has been more beloved than this one with the Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue. So I think beauty in that sense is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. John O’Donohue: Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like.
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