John O'Donohue

Kansas City and Chicago playing at Chicago are scoreless after one.

O'Donoghue and Horland.

John O'Donoghue, the left-hander, and Joel Horland, the right-hander, are opposing each other in that Kansas City-Chicago game.

All right, Stank sets.

The one-two pitch to Pepitone.

It sort of can touch into all sorts of things, including how we relate to each other and all these different things about life and death.

Now let's look at the life we're creating here as a human family and how can we nudge cultural evolution toward what Joanna Macy called, you know, the great turning towards this positive way of being, you know, and John O'Donohue, who was also a colleague who passed a while ago, you know, John was an Irish Catholic priest and a philosopher and a poet, and he was also an Irish mystic.

And John would always, when we would teach together, would always say to the workshop participants, you're all mystics.

And I would say, what is a mystic? And he would say, it's someone who believes in the reality of the invisible.

And there's nothing more powerful than the universal language of you and emotion.

And John O'Donohue, my favorite mystic, says the invisible embrace of beauty itself.

To actually... entrants us into a state of being that reminds us that our state, we're human beings, not human doings.

We're human beings, not human thinkings and solvings.

And thank you so much for your texts on poetry too.

One says, "John O'Donohue and his poem, For a New Beginning.

My favorite quote is, 'Then the delight when your courage kindled, and you stepped out onto new ground.'" Mark says, "Poetry's often a shorter reading or listening option, and while it demands a special form of attention, it may fit into our distracted time more easily than other forms of writing, reading, or listening." And Greg says, "I wrote a lot of poetry, especially when I was depressed.

Good therapy, but not something to share, as so dark." It is Life Matters on ABC Radio National.

They want to slash it by 750,000.

We'll get some reaction from the opposition, Senator John O'Donoghue, the Shadow Immigration Minister.

A lot of concerns around what this could potentially do to the economy.

So we'll chat to Jono about that.

There's a book called Soul Friend called Anamkara.

It's John O'Donoghue, a Celtic writer.

It's got to be a part of this.

It's a different thing.

This is an ancient monastic Celtic tradition.

John O'Donohue speaks of it in his really like watershed book called Anamkara.

Anamkara means friend of the soul.

Wow.

Coleridge would have given his eye teeth for a laptop.

Coleridge, a friend of Wordsworth, he was, oh my God, the amount of effort he put just into getting his word into print and then out to a circle of people who would subscribe to him.

It was enormous.

He would have given everything for a laptop and a printer.

And it's not just a technique, it's because the voice and the articulation is bringing lots of things together at once.

And suddenly you're in a richer environment.

My friend, John O'Donoghue, who passed away at the height of his powers, he had a bird of paradise vocabulary that was just incredible.

You'd be three sentences in and you were in a different world.

Yeah.

And when we're praying for the things we want, You know, John O'Donoghue says in Anam Cara, everything that you want is there.

You just have to feel worthy of it.

And when I was communing with Boanne yesterday, it was like, all you've been doing is walking in the wrong direction.