On Being with Krista Tippett: religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas -- on public radio and online [OnBeing.org]

January 26, 2012
The late Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue insisted on beauty as a human calling. He believed that people can live through the toughest times if they manage to keep something beautiful in their mind. The author of Anam Cara (Gaelic for "soul friend") articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual — the visible and the invisible — intertwine in human experience.
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John O'Donohue walks in the countryside near his boyhood home of Connemara, Ireland.

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