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John O'Donohue – The Inner Landscape of Beauty

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Relationship Between Beauty and Threshold

Beauty isn't all about just nice loveliness like beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. And i think when we cross a new threshold, that if we cross worthily, what we do is we heal the patterns of repet in us which had us caught somewhere. In our crossing, then we cross on to new ground where we just don't repeat what we've been through in the last place we were. So i think beauty, in that sense, is about an emerging fulness, a greater sense of grace and elegance,. A deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your n olding life.

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