Book Description
Eternal Echoes - There is divine restlessness in
the human heart, our eternal echo of longing that lives deep
within us an never lets us settle for what we have or where
we are. Now, in this exquisitely crafted, inspirational book,
John O'Donohue explores that most basic of human desires--the
desire to belong. It's a desire that constantly draws us
toward new possibilities of self discovery, friendship, and
creativity.
In Eternal Echoes John O'Donohue embarks upon a
journey of discovery in the heart of our postmodern world--a
hungry, lonesome world that suffers from a deep sense of
isolation and fragmentation. With the thousand-year-old
shelter of Divine Belonging now shattered, we seem to have
lost our way in this magical, wondrous universe.
Here, as we explore perennial themes and gain insight from
a range of ancient beliefs, we draw inspiration from
Ireland's rich spiritual heritage of profound, mystical
wisdom that will open pathways to peace and contentment, and
lead us to live with creativity, honor, and compassion the
one life that has been given us.
"In the pulse-beat is the life and longing, all
embraced in the great circle of Belonging, reaching
everywhere, leaving nothing and no one out. This embrace is
mostly concealed from us who climb the relentless and
vanishing escalator of time and journey outside where space
is lonesome with distance. All we hear ware whispers, all we
see are glimpses; but each of us has the divinity of
imagination which warms or hearts with the beauty and depth
of a world woven from glimpses and whispers, an eternal world
that meets the gaze of our eyes and the echo of our voices to
assure is that from all eternity we have belonged and to
answer the question that echoes at the heart of all longing:
while were are here, where is it that we are absent
from?"
-- from Eternal Echoes
