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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part 1
The Belonging of the...
Belonging: The Wisdom of...
Why do we need to Belong
Restless and Lonesome
The Voices of Longing
The Feeling that Something...
Our Longing to be Loved
Soul: the Beauty of the...
Our Longing for Nature
The Sanctuary of a Favourite...
The Longing of the Earth
Our Longing to know
Discovery is the Nature of...
Life as a Pilgrimage of...
The First Journey Creates...
Imagining the Time...
The Invisible World is...
Forms of the Invisible
The Mystery of Resemblance
Home as the Cradle of Destiny
The Family as Nest of...
Home is where you Belong
Childhood as a Magic Forest
The Belonging of Childhood
Innocence Keeps Mystery...
The Longing of Childhood...
Childhood's Dark Innocence
The Red bush of Ancestry
Parents as Memory Holders
Styles of Belonging
The Native
The Visitor
The Neighbour
The Wanderer
The Stranger
A Blessing
Part 2
To Realize that you...
Presence is Soul-Atmosphere
Music as Presence
The Silence of Sculpture
The Sanctuary of Human Presence
The Witness of Hands
Styles of Presence: the...
The Blurred Presence
The Angry Presence
The Charismatic Presence
The Anxious Presence
Dignity of Presence
The Architecture of...
In the Heart, the Ache...
Celebration: when the Moment...
Functionalism Kills Presence
Without Reverence there is no...
The Ascetical Presence: the...
We cannot Live Without...
The Blessings of Desire
To Keep the Contours of...
"Purity of Heart is to will...
Great Choices need the...
To be Faithful to your...
The Addiction of Distraction
Irony and Recognition
Longing Keeps your...
Each Person Incarnates...
To find your True Home...
The Eros of Thought
Our Longing is an Echo of...
A blessing
Part 3
The Beauty of Wild Distance
The House Keeps the Universe...
Our Fear of Freedom: the...
The Cage of Frightened...
The Fixed Image Atrophies...
To Become Free is Everything
The Mental Prison
We Take Upon Ourselves...
The Prison of Guilt
The Prison of Shame
The Prison of Belief
The Wildness of Celtic Spirituality
The Lightness and Imagination of...
Your Vision is your Home
The Haunted Room in the Mind
The Shelter of Continuity
Certainty Freezes the Mind
The Danger of the Name
The Limit as Invitation to...
The Delicate Art of Freeing...
The True Shelter of the Porous...
To Roll the Stone off the Heart
If you cannot forgive, you...
Our Secret Companions and...
Soul-Shrine
The Angel of Attraction...
The Angel as Artist of your...
A Blessing
Part 4
Our Secret Kinship with...
Light has Many Faces...
The Bright Night of the Earth
The Tree as Artist of...
The Suffering of Self-Exile
Why are you so Vulnerable?
The Pain of Exposure
The Loss of Spontaneity
The Point of Equilibrium
When you Stand in the Place...
Suffering's Slow Teachings
The Sense of Meaning Vanishes
"When Sorrows Come, they Come
The New Window is Open
How is the Hard-Earned Harvest...
I know, I Alone
The Mystery of Transfiguration
Behind the Dark a Subtle...
Sweet Honey From Old...
Unconscious Suffering
Suffering in the Animal...
Suffering Brings Compassion
Illness: the Land of Desolation
To Befriend the Places of Pain
The Vulnerability and Mystery...
No Wound Is Ever Silent
Celtic Recognition and Blessing...
To Help Carry the Suffering of...
Out of the Winter a New Spring
A Blessing
Part 5
The Human Body Gathered...
Prayer is Ancient Longing
Prayer is the Narrative...
Prayer and the Desire to...
A Prayer is Never Wasted
In Prayer we Learn to See...
The Deepest Prayer Happens...
The Prayer of Being
What is it that Prays in Us?
Prayer and Wonder: the Art...
Wonder Awakens Us to the...
Wonder Invites Mystery to...
You cannot Step Outside...
Amidst the Unknown, Prayer...
The Celtic Art of Approaching...
Nature is Always Wrapped In...
Prayer: a Clearance in the...
Prayer and the Voices...
Mystical Prayer as a Mosaic...
Prayer as the Door into your...
On that Day you will Know...
The Soul is the Home of...
To Breathe in your Soul Light
Praise is Like Morning Sun...
Prayer Changes Space
Graced Vision Sees Between...
"Behold, I Am the Ground...
Prayer is Critical Vigilance
A Generous Heart Is...
The Beauty of the Prayer...
To Frame Each Frontier of...
To be Great, be Entire
To Create your Own Prayer...
My Own Prayer
Part 6
The Subtle Trail of Absence
Absence and Presence are Sisters
And the Earth knew Absence
The Legend of Midhir and Etain
The Longing For Real Presence
The Homeless Mind
Psychology and Self...
Brittle Language Numbs...
Beyond being An Observer...
Memory is Full of the Ruins...
Ruins: Temples of Absence
The Absence of the Future
Towards a Philosophy
Grief: Longing For the...
Grief is a Journey That...
We Grieve For Ourselves
The Imagination and the...
The Artist as Permanent...
The Ones we Never...
Addiction: Obsessed...
The Emigrants
Language and belonging
A Philosophy of...
Fundamentalism: False...
Cults and Sects
Our Longing For Community
The Shelter of Community
Towards a New Community
Divine Longing Transfigures...
A Blessing
Vespers
Suggested Further Reading
About the Author
Other Books by John O'Donohue
Copyright
About the Publisher
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