| Beauty: The Invisible Embrace |  | Author: John O'Donohue
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Sales Rank: 118,337
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
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Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1591791375
Dewey Decimal Number: 111.85
EAN: 9781591791379
ASIN: 1591791375
Publication Date: February 2004
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Product Description
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere- in landscape, music, art, love, companionship, religion, and in ourselves. When we experience the Beautiful, we feel fully alive. From Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue comes more than five hours of poetry, vision, and imagination to attune to this awesome force, with Beauty.
Book Description
"When we awaken to the call of beauty, we become aware of new ways of being in the world," teaches John O'Donohue. The beautiful unites your feelings, your thoughts, and your dreams--it brings together all the different dimensions of your life. On Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, O'Donohue inducts listeners into this eternal world that lies beyond form and function. "The human soul is always hungry for beauty. It can be sought everywhere: in landscape, furniture, clothes, love, religion ... and in ourselves," he explains. Perhaps now, more than ever before, is the time to awaken and invoke beauty. There is a great coarseness in our time; it can be seen in our language, in the way we hold life, and in the way that we behave toward each other. Beauty: The Invisible Embrace offers listeners the opportunity to truly experience the beautiful, which--according to this Irish author, poet, and scholar--is to experience unity with the Divine. Drawing from his own Celtic wisdom and the writings of Keats, Rilke, Thomas Aquinas, and others, John O'Donohue guides listeners through five hours of poetry, vision, and imagination to attune to "that which shows us the surprise at the heart of everything."
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 not worth the time or price! June 29, 2010
julio
I spent 2 hours trying to get a sense of premise from this book and was sadly disappointed. After hearing an interview with the author I expected to to read something on par with Anthony De Mello's thoughtful books but the substance never arrived. The author is clearly thoughtful and perhaps mystical but in this book the scattered thoughts are never united. Perhaps the book can serve as Koan. This recommendation from NPR was one of the rare disappointments from that resource.
 Beautiful February 22, 2010
Allegra M. Barringer (Atlanta, GA USA)
I love the way John O'Donohue writes. I want to walk with him through the nature in Ireland and listen to his brogue. He has such a peace and gentleness about him.
An Amazing work June 20, 2009
Mary Ronner (Burlington, VT)
I have begun using this book for the purpose of meditation. I therefore read small bits at a time. The book is beautifully designed to suit this purpose.
Each read provides inspiration to hold you for a day long and then invites you back to continue.
As with John O'Donohue's other masterpieces, this too meets the expectation for serenity and self-exploration.
 A breath of Ache' May 7, 2009
R. Morell (Albany, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this to be a wonderfully crafted book about something difficult to hold on to, but in its evanescence, filled with all sorts of shimmering and delightful aspects. Hard to describe, this beauty thing. But O'Donohue explicates and renders a portrait of its throat-hold-taking that captivates and enthralls.
...beautiful September 16, 2008
Amazonbombshell (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
BEAUTY is a book worth owning and reading again and again. Sometimes it feels like a meditation, and sometimes a scholarly paper, drawing on art and poetry and music to explicate its theme. These different approaches don't clash -- in fact they weave together incredibly well. O'Donohue's own writing is an example of the changing beauty he studies in this book.
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