So I'm going to just give a brief overview here, read the foreword of this wonderful book and then the Book House. And you're welcome to join us if you like. We're going to meet on Instagram at 06:15 P.m. Pacific time, 09:15 a.m. Eastern time, and we're going to meet there at Joy Devi bookhouse. That's our title on Instagram. So this book starts out with it has a number of categories here and I will not go into in depth because it's quite long
Penelope Tiam
@IAmJoydeVie · 4:54
As I was putting these words together in a splendid sense of serendipity, as Thomas Merton might have put it out of Benedictus fell an extract by Bernie Nee Thalartha, a journalist of a west of Ireland generation that allowed themselves to quote from speech if they felt it was justified. From my tribute to Galway Cathedral at what was a magnificent send off for John john O'Donoghue presence filled one with hope
Penelope Tiam
@IAmJoydeVie · 4:49
In my own poem of possibility in memory of John O'Donoghue I had this image of John in my mind. From that wider space that is, imagination is made possible a visual beauty that dazzles and ensnares. Deep in that space lies too in unreleased expectancy versions of a world unborn sending shards of life and color that make an invitation to something truly human. They lodge in memory making an inheritance of possibility not always realized and in that sight yielded up by memory to the spirit at the end
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Penelope Tiam
@IAmJoydeVie · 2:31
What is most valuable in John's philosophy is that those who are shared and woven from the threads of experience and nature create a tapestry that is community. John was adamant that the offering of a blessing should never be confined to a priestly order, that it was a practice deep in the best of tradition. So may I end by wishing every blessing on all for now and in the future. And that is the conclusion of the foreword by Michael D
Charalene Kiser
@Charalene · 4:49
In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together. No one else can undertake this task for you. You are the one and only threshold of an inner world. This wholesomeness is holiness. To be holy is to be natural, to befriend the worlds that came to balance in you. Behind the facade of image and distraction, each person is an artist
Charalene Kiser
@Charalene · 4:43
Since the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process, love is the continuous birth of creativity. Within and between us. We will explore longing as the presence of the divine and the soul as the house of belonging. In chapter two, we will outline a spirituality of friendship with the body. The body is your clay home, your only home in the universe. Your body is in the soul. This recognition confers a sacred and mystical dignity on the body. The senses are divine thresholds
Charalene Kiser
@Charalene · 1:55
You. The Celtic imagination loved the circle. It recognized how the rhythm of experience, nature and divinity followed a circular pattern. In acknowledgment of this, the structure of this book follows a circular rhythm. It begins with a treatment of friendship as awakening, then lowers the senses as immediate and creative thresholds. This builds the ground for a positive evaluation of solitude, which in turn seeks expression in the external world of work and action