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The Invisible World

By: John O'Donohue
Narrated by: John O'Donohue
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For the Celtic people of ancient Ireland, the natural world was a continuous prayer. Each mountain held a soul, each river a heart. This "Eucharist of nature" was living evidence of a divine worldview to which each Celt, as part of the "Great Circle", belonged. Like the fierce and loving people who beheld it, this sacred vision vanished with the coming of Christianity in the fifth century. Or did it?

In The Invisible World, scholar and poet John O'Donohue recovers Celtic spirituality's original mysteries, sharing practices and beliefs that enrich Ireland and its people to this day. For the Celts all life was sacred, yet they reserved their greatest reverence not for what they could see but for what they could not. Around them they sensed an "invisible world", the great unknown from which they came and the source of eternal wonder in their lives. Through prayer, O'Donohue teaches, we may enter directly into this secret immensity and escape the psychological prisons we create for ourselves.

Alive with loving scholarship and interwoven with prayers and poetry in the Celtic tradition, The Invisible World is an invitation to find freedom from your negativity and return your soul to the grace that is waiting unseen around you at this very moment.

©1997 John O'Donohue (P)1997 John O'Donohue
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Listening to John has helped me to better understand and appreciate the truly good things in life, things which for the most part but by no means all I was partially aware of before, but struggled to justify. The book may help you to not dwell upon or chase after the inconsequential, greedy, destructive or selfish aspects of life. It may strengthen your resolve to lead a better, gentler, softer life. Its a beautiful book. I’m grateful for a friend mentioning John’s work and to John for putting this together and sharing it.

Awareness of the beauty of the Invisible.

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I love the way he writes and agree wholeheartedly in the way he sees the world. This book is perfect for any age and any level of understanding. Relax, grab a cup of tea and enjoy.
I listened to all of chapter 2 walking in a misty rain along the hills of the valley I live in. Just perfect.

Beautiful and true

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A gorgeous narration by the author, listened through in two lovely long sessions. Love it.

wonderful

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refreshing and gentle with reality in one hand and the mystical in the other.
an antidote to both fundamentalism and feel good pop pycho-religion

a true gift

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