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About the Author

JOHN O’DONOHUE lives in Ireland. He is a Catholic scholar who lectures and conducts workshops in the United States and Europe. He was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophical theology from the University of Tübingen in 1990, and his book on the philosophy of Hegel, Person als Vermittlung, was published in Germany in 1993. His collection of poetry Echoes of Memory was published in 1994. John O’Donohue is the author of the award winning Anam CARA, which has been a number one bestseller in Ireland for more than a year.

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Copyright

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John O’Donohue

Eternal Echoes

Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

For Josie, my mother,

In appreciation of all her warmth and love

Which helped us to discover our longings within

a kind shelter of belonging.

And for all those who inhabit lives

Where the belonging is torn

And the longing is numbed.

“Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum

Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore”

(So they all stood, each praying to be ferried across first

Their hands stretched out in longing for the further shore)

VIRGIL, Aeneid (V1, 313)

“Behold, I am the Ground of thy Beseeching.”

JULIAN of Norwich

“A single beat from the heart of a lover is capable of driving out a hundred sorrows.”

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

Matins

I.

Somewhere, out at the edges, the night

Is turning and the waves of darkness

Begin to brighten the shore of dawn.

The heavy dark falls back to earth

And the freed air goes wild with light,