As we stand at the threshold between the end of this year and prepare to welcome in the next—while continuing to navigate the challenges of this global pandemic—a blessing from the late Irish philosopher and poet John O'Donohue. Skip to secondary content. A number of people who have participated in the 40 Day online Irish Inner Peace Pilgrimage have told me that this poem has been exactly what they needed to hear at a particular moment in their lives. In The Four Elements, poet and philosopher John O'Donohue draws upon his Celtic heritage and the love of his native landscape, the west of Ireland, to weave together a tapestry of beautifully evoked images of nature. by John O' Donohue. As time remains free of all that it frames, May your mind stay clear of all it names. Enjoy this from David Whyte: EASTER BLESSING. appearances, may you be seen to have risen. Posted on April 5, 2013 by opreach. and we are suddenly negotiating the challenge of a threshold. Whereas light is very heartening, it remains quite superficial. Blessing: My Backyard and John O'Donohue - All Things: There's a word that we don't hear everyday. Landscape is the first-born of creation. Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, is a luminous book about art and life by the late Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue. "We bless this year for all we . John O'Donohue POETRY: For A New Home, by John O'Donohue. As the poet who draws your dreams, Creating for you many secret doors, Decorated with pictures of your hunger; It has the dignity of the angelic That knows you to your roots, Always awaiting your deeper befriending To take you beyond the threshold of want, Where all your diverse strainings Can come to wholesome ease. Anam Cara introduced me to O'Donohue's poetry, and because I wanted to read more, I bought his book To Bless the Space Between Us, the last book he published before his death in 2008. by John O'Donohue. PAT FLYNN. He grew up in County Clare, Ireland, a landscape that profoundly influenced his work. Beauty Is an Edge of Becoming | John O'Donohue - The On Being Project By John O'Donohue (1956 - 2008) As a bird soars high In the free holding of the wind, Clear of the certainty of ground, Opening the imagination of wings Into the grace of emptiness To fulfill new voyagings, May your life awaken To the call of its freedom. I was at a threshold - the one titled "Last child leaves home." Thresholds, says John O'Donohue in To Bless the Space Between Us, come with "a great complexity" of emotions: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. Dr O'Donohue died four years ago . John's numerous international best-selling books include: Anam Cara, Beauty, Eternal Echoes, and the beloved To . Threshold - Wake Up! A big man with a big and generous heart. BEautiful Stacy… I love John O'Donohue's work… he was an amazing human being. . May your heart be tranquil here, Blessed by peace the world cannot give. PDF Spirituality as the Art of Real Presence - The Way