Personhood and 'the circle'

[Brendan McKeague]

I'm wishing to honour the passing of one of my 
favourite and most influential spiritual mentors: 
John O'Donohue (Anam Cara, Eternal Echoes).
John died suddenly and unexpectedly in his sleep 
on January 3rd, he was 52 years old.  While 
reflecting on his words and works, I came across this paragraph on his website
www.jodonohue.com which really speaks strongly 
and gently to me about Open Space....I thought it worth passing on...

John O'Donohue is an Irish poet and philosopher 
who lives in the solitude of a cottage in the 
West of Ireland and speaks Gaelic as his native language.

He has degrees in philosophy, English literature 
and was awarded a Ph.D in philosophical theology 
from the University of Tubingen in 1990. His 
dissertation developed a new concept of Person 
through a re-interpretation of the philosophy of 
Hegel. The prestigious Review of Metaphysics 
commended him for "breaking new ground in our 
thinking about consciousness
(with) a richer and 
deeper notion of Personhood."   O'Donohue says:

  "Hegel struck me as someone who put his eye to 
the earth at a most unusual angle and managed to 
glimpse the circle toward which all things aspire."

Sounds a bit like what we're doing in our 
presence and movement in Open Space....?

Cheers
Brendan
(this is a wee bit different from my last posting 
about Construction Engineers.... :-) )

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