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John O'Donohue

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John O'Donohue

John O'Donohue is the author of the award-winning and international bestseller Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom and Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong. He also is the author of a book on Hegel¹s philosophy, Person als Vermittlung, published in Germany in 1993, and a collection of poetry Echoes of Memory published in 1994.

He is an Irish poet and Catholic scholar whose acclaimed writings reveal an original thinker rooted in an unorthodox blend of Irish heritage, German philosophy, and an intimate relationship with the wild, luminous landscape of his Connamara home. A gifted and delightful speaker, John O¹Donohue lectures and leads seminars throughout the U.S. and Europe, encouraging audiences to become artists of their own deepest possibility.

His other works include a series of monographs on the four elements: Stone as Tabernacle of Memory; Water: The Tears of the Earth; Fire: At Home at the Hearth of Spirit; and Air: Breath of God.

John O'Donohue

Books by John O'Donohue