Beauty: The Invisible Embrace - Softcover

O'Donohue PH.D., John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060957263 ISBN 13: 9780060957261

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2005

Synopsis

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'Donohueopens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of our own relationshipwith beauty by exposing the infinity and mystery of its breadth. His wordsreturn us to the dignity of silence, profundity of stillness, power of thought andperception, and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this masterfuland revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater intimacy with beauty andcelebrates 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 embraceinvites us toward new heights of passion and creativity even in these uncertain timesof global conflict and crisis.

About this title

Review:

"'A thinker who seamlessly weaves philosophy and theology, O'Donohue stops us in our tracks, reminding us that we might be alive for reasons other than productivity or consumption'" (Sunday Times) --Sunday Times

Book Description:

An exquisitely written and fascinating inspirational guide to beauty, creativity and the imagination.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060957263
• ISBN 13: 9780060957261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272