The Inner Landscape of Beauty

January 26, 2012
The late Irish poet and philosopher is beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible worlds intertwine in human experience.

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John O'Donohue walks in the countryside near his boyhood home of Connemara, Ireland.

(photo: Nuton)
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