The Inner Landscape of Beauty

One of On Being's most beloved interviews. The late Irish poet, theologian, and former Catholic priest John O'Donohue — author of Anam Cara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace — speaks with Krista Tippett about beauty as a human calling ('that in the presence of which we feel more alive'), the Celtic sense of landscape as alive rather than dead geography, time as the mother of presence rather than a tyrant, friendship and the 'evacuation of interiority' in modern life, Meister Eckhart's 'place in the soul that neither time nor space nor no created thing can touch,' and thresholds — the moments where we cross into new selves. Recorded shortly before his unexpected death in 2008.