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Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong | 
 enlarge | Author: John O'donohue
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 115734
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0060182806
Dewey Decimal Number: 128
EAN: 9780060182809
ASIN: 0060182806
Publication Date: March 1, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
John O'Donohue (Anam Cara), a Celtic poet, scholar, and philosopher with an Irish brogue, speaks to the deepest calling of our soul: the longing to belong. "To be human is to belong," he explains. "Belonging is a circle that embraces everything; if we reject it, we damage our nature. The word 'belonging' holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: Being and Longing, the longing of our Being and the being of our Longing." Although this may sound like an elaborate Celtic circle knot, O'Donohue has nevertheless woven a solid and easy-to-grasp book that speaks to the soul's constant yearning. Every passage is a delight for the senses, as O'Donohue shares his lilting poetic language, his Celtic imagery and stories, and his fireside-chat wisdom. This is a broad-reaching yet highly focused book that dares to explore the realm of legitimate angels, the meaning of suffering, and, most poignantly, how life on earth may never quench the soul's thirst for belonging. --Gail Hudson
Product Description
In this exquisitely crafted, inspirational book, acclaimed poet and scholar 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. John O'Donohue embarks upon a journey of discovery in the heart of the postmodern world. Here are some of the profound ideas inside Eternal Echoes: -- The Beauty of the Broken Circle -- Purity of the Heart Is to Will One Thing -- The Cage of Frightened Identity -- Innocence Keeps Mystery Playful -- Suffering's Slow Teachings -- No Wound Is Ever Silent -- Nature Is Always Wrapped in a Seamless Prayer Lyrical and provocative, spiritual and luminous, Eternal Echoes will open pathways to peace and contentment.
Book Description
Shows that the eternal values of human life flourish only when we find sanctuary in family, community, & divine relationship
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 Eternal Echoes January 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections was a dissapointment for me. It seemed very repetitive although it did make some good points.
 dont buy March 26, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
My goodness this book droned on and on about belonging and longing without any real wisdom coming through. I will never buy a book again because someone else said it was good I lost money on this one.
 Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections January 11, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not being familiar with this author I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of Celtic Spirituality I encountered. I was captured from the first few paragraphs of the Prolog. Having such a complete list of the contents was extremly helpful.I will be exploring future books by this author in the future.
Touches the soul December 28, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is from the soul, and we all need soul food every now and again. I picked it up in Ireland while chilling out from a broken marriage and it spoke to me like no other book has ever done. With prose like exquisite poetry, John O' Donohue touches the soul with a true taste of spirituality.
Very inspirational, it's wonderful to read a work of art that is so "biblical" in it's ability to motivate. It speaks metaphorically,pragmatically and is grounded in common sense. I'm looking forward to reading it again, and then sometime later, again.
Scholar with a Poet's Eyes December 21, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book to read along with The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The Celtic Spirit by Caitlin Matthews. O'Donohue brings deep insight into such topics as belonging, alienation, kinship, fear... all the basics. His scholarship and sense of poetry help us create a new language out of the depths of our experiences, so that we see ourselves in new light. The author began his journey with the book Anam Cara, which contains a wonderful friendship blessing I say often. Eternal Echoes is even more on point, if not equally so. Slainte, Mr. O'Donohue.
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