[Unedited] John O'Donohue with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.8	Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. Fetzer's sharing spiritual heritage report asks,
0:10.8	how will we hold on to ancient wisdom traditions while applying them creatively in today's time?
0:16.4	Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:19.6	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with the late Irish poet and philosopher
0:26.2	John O'Donohue. There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:34.0	Let's come back again. Great.
0:38.6	I was going to say to you, I love this line. This was from an interview you did somewhere else.
0:44.4	You said one way to talk about what you do is you excavate the Celtic and Judeo-Christian
0:49.4	philosophical and literary traditions to try to bring them into conversation with our modern hunger
0:54.6	and questioning. I don't think our culture, this culture has any imagination at all about
1:02.4	what that kind of excavation can yield for us. Yes, yes.
1:05.4	I think it's also a nice way to describe some of what we do with this program.
1:10.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, good.
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:12.5	So just a little bit closer, you sound a little less present.
1:16.5	Okay.
1:17.5	All right.
1:17.7	And we, you know, this is a real conversation. It will be edited later.
1:24.5	So it doesn't have to be good, especially linear.
1:27.7	We can start and stop.
1:28.8	You can say, let me read a poem.
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