Summary: John O'Donohue was an Irish poet and philosopher beloved for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. The human soul hungers for beauty, John O'Donohue insisted, and we feel most alive in its presence. It returns us often in fleeting but sustaining moments to our highest selves. And a neglect of beauty, he believed, is at the heart of our deepest modern crises.
