India's Unending Journey: Finding balance in a time of change by Mark Tully

Author:Mark Tully
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781446491492
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2012-02-29T00:00:00+00:00

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ‘driven urgency but little sense of destination’. Those words rang true to me because I too had been through a period of life in which I had a driven urgency to become a successful and well known journalist; but within myself I had always known that this was not a destination in which I would ever be able to rest happily. This was because I couldn’t rid myself of what Sister Geraldine had called the ‘irreducible religious element’ in myself. Now, I felt that the lack of a sense of destination and a sense of meaning were the most profound losses Ireland had suffered – deeper than the anomie, the decline of the once almost universal familiarity with the Church ceremonies, which had left such a mark on McGarhern, and the disappearance of difference. Ireland seemed to me a land that was adrift because it had pulled up the anchor of its rich past and yet had no new course to guide it into the future. It had failed to find the middle way between tradition and change.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.