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 enlarge | Author: John O'donohue
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 917
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0385522274
Dewey Decimal Number: 242.8
EAN: 9780385522274
ASIN: 0385522274
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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 Beautiful book April 7, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a treasure trove of inspiring words, to console, encourage and strengthen. It will assist in all stages and experiences of live. It will be on my bedside locker in times of need and times of blessing.
A gem of a book April 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a treasure. Since it arrived in the mail I have read from it every day. It has the most beautifully written Blessings that sound like lovely music when read aloud. There are Blessings for all occasions. This book is a must have for anyone who loves to inspire others through public speaking especially those who work with people in the helping professions. Makes a great gift too! I havent been so excited 'bout a book in a long time. Go ahead buy it... you wont be sorry, and then read it to others and watch their reaction.
Classical Music Spoken April 3, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
After getting used to the sweet but very strong Irish English of John O'Donohue you feel the warmth in your heart that you were always looking for. All his blessings transcend to that place your soul longs for; it's classical music spoken.
Hope and Blessings April 3, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book of blessings is a great gift to us all. I bought the book and the audio CDs and I have used both almost daily since I received them. It is a CD/book you will use, because the occasions for the different blessings will arise in your life. The author's lovely Irish brogue as he reads the blessings and the music of Irish harpist Aine Minogue allow for a deeper understanding of the written word.
The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue did not shy away from topics that will make us cringe. He wrote a blessing "For love in the time of conflict", a "Blessing for the Parents of one who has committed crime", and - possibly one of the hardest tragedies of all - a "Blessing for the family and friends of a suicide".
John O'Donohue was a priest for 19 years (before he committed all his time to writing and speaking) and he knows about death from his work with the sick and the dying. But at the same time he is intimately familiar with the opposite of impermanence, he knows about the living presence of the light in our lives.
He talks about the luminous light in the mystical landscape of the Burren in the West of Ireland (his home), that reaches us when we become still to listen and witness. If we are mindful, nature and landscape can alert us to the eternal and we might be allowed to see a light that will speak to our human fears.
The blessings in this collection address crucial thresholds: A New Year blessing, a Morning Offering, the birth of a child, starting a new job, the breakup of a relationship, the experience of failure and the joy of friendship to name just a few. The invocations provide the structure of rituals that will protect, encourage and guide us on our life journey. Rituals have been neglected and become lost in post-modern secular society, but parallel to their disappearance awoke an incredible hunger for some kind of spiritual observance of the milestones in our lives.
John O' Donohue reaches way back into the Celtic tradition of blessing your loved ones, and he makes this tradition accessible to us in a simple, refreshing and non-dogmatic way.
It seems auspicious that John O'Donohue was able to finish this book and the recording of the CD before he was called home unexpectedly - in his sleep- at the age of 53 in January 2008.
Visit www.johnodonohue.com for more information.
A Blessing from John March 18, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
It's painful to think on what we've all lost in John's passing, but this book is a tremendous gift that he has left behind for us. The blessings are beautiful in themselves, but what I most appreciated about the book is the way he explains "blessing", both in the introduction and in the essay at the end of the book. Even without the particular words of blessing, these explanations open a powerful view of the world and our relation to one another.
This is definitely a book to read, re-read, and to treasure always. I guarantee it will be something you'll refer to many times through-out your life.
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