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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
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Beauty does not linger, it only visits.
Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm,
it calls us to feel, think, and act beautifully in the world:
to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful.

Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. Bestselling author John O'Donohue opens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of our own relationship with beauty by exposing the infinity and mystery of its breadth. His words return us to the dignity of silence, profundity of stillness, power of thought and perception, and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this masterful and revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater intimacy with beauty and celebrates it for what it really is: a homecoming of the human spirit. As he focuses on the classical, medieval, and Celtic traditions of art, music, literature, nature, and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's invisible embrace invites us toward new heights of passion and creativity even in these uncertain times of global conflict and crisis.

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  • ISBN13: 9780060957261
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Beautiful
 
Review Date: February 22, 2010
Reviewer: 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
 
Review Date: June 20, 2009
Reviewer: 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'
 
Review Date: May 7, 2009
Reviewer: R. Morell, Albany, NY USA
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
 
Review Date: September 16, 2008
Reviewer: Amazonbombshell, USA
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.
The Secret to Youth
 
Review Date: September 5, 2008
Reviewer: Linda Ballou, Los Angeles
If the secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty, then John O-Donohue's book The Invisible Embrace-Beauty is mandatory reading for those seeking a long and robust life. His observations about all things beautiful--from the illuminated landscapes of a his homeland, Conamara, Ireland, to the soaring heights that music lifts our souls, to the sending of a loved moving onto their final journey are profound. Dance, sculpture, painting--art in all its' forms, express the beauty of self-actualization. Answering our individual calls to creativity, says O'Donohue, is critical to a clear psyche and the road to all good works. Once a priest, he presumes a world imbued with an all pervasive deity and a continuation of the individual soul into afterlife. Still, his brilliant, poetic expressions demonstrate a secular understanding and mastery of the language seldom seen in modern writers. The narrative incorporates many quotes from past literary luminaries illustrating the depth of his research. This book is serious soul food for those hungering for purity of thought and inspirational literature.

Linda Ballou