To Bless the Space Between Us - A Book of Blessings

Zusatztext Praise for John O’Donohue “John O’Donohue is a man of the soul. His scholarly meditation on the continuing relevance of Ireland’s spiritual heritage has become a publishing phenomenon.…” — London Times Anam Cara “A lively spiritual companion to all Celts—or to those who are Celtic in their hearts.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Anam Cara is a radiant source of wisdom! a link between the human and the divine. This work is a blessed! rare gem.” —Larry Dossey! M.D.! author of Be Careful What You Pray For and Healing Words “This beautifully written book proves that tireless wisdom can bring an amazing understanding about ourselves and the world around us even today.” —Dannion Brinkley author of Saved by the Light and At Peace in the Light Eternal Echoes “O’Donohue has produced a treasury for readers of all faiths. A demanding! high-wire existentialist adventure that will inspire readers to re-evaluate their goals and ways of being in the world. O’Donohue ends each chapter with a lyrical blessing or prayer! and his book itself is a profound! healing prayer.” — Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor John O'Donohue Klappentext 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. 1    Beginnings There are days when Conamara is wreathed in blue Tuscan light. The mountains seem to waver as though they were huge dark ships on a distant voyage. I love to climb up into the silence of these vast autonomous structures. What seems like a pinnacled summit from beneath becomes a level plateau when you arrive there. Born in a red explosion of ascending fire, the granite lies cold, barely marked by the millions of years of rain and wind. On this primeval ground I feel I have entered into a pristine permanence, a continuity here that knew the wind hundreds of millions of years before a human face ever felt it. When we arrive into the world, we enter this ancient sequence. All our beginnings happen within this continuity. Beginnings often frighten us because they seem like lonely voyages into the unknown. Yet, in truth, no beginning is empty or isolated. We seem to think that beginning is setting out from a lonely point along some line of direction into the unknown. This is not the case. Shelter and energy come alive when a beginning is embraced. Goethe says that once the commitment is made, destiny conspires with us to support and realize it. We are never as alone in our beginnings as it might seem at the time. A beginning is ultimately an invitation to open toward the gifts and growth that are stored up for us. To refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect. Perhaps beginnings make us anxious because we did not begin ourselves. Others began us. Being conceived and born, we eventually enter upon ourselves already begun, already there. Instinctively we...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Donohue, O&apos, John O'Donohue
• Editore: Crown Publishing Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.03.2008
• EAN: 9780385522274
• ISBN: 978-0-385-52227-4
• Pagine: 222
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia