The Irish poet and former priest John O'Donohue — whose Anam Cara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace recovered a Celtic vocabulary for inwardness — talks with Krista Tippett about beauty as a vocation rather than an aesthetic and about an "invisible world" he treats as a real neighbour to the visible one. Recorded shortly before his sudden death in 2008, the conversation has been re-aired several times since.
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No conversation we’ve ever done has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we can know and see. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. But John O’Donohue’s voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.