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On Being · February 15, 2024 · 55m
John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty (re-release)
Classic re-release of one of On Being's most beloved episodes. Irish poet-philosopher John O'Donohue on beauty as a human calling, thresholds as places of transformation, and the Celtic imagination's insistence on the 'invisible world.'
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Canon
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O'Donohue: every person has an inner landscape as real as any physical landscape. The true self is this interior geography — hills of courage, valleys of grief, rivers of creativity. Most people never explore their own interior.
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O'Donohue: in the Celtic tradition, the dead are not gone — they've moved to 'the invisible world' and remain available as mentors. This isn't superstition; it's the recognition that wisdom persists beyond individual lifetimes.
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