Through a poetic journey, this story explores themes of human awakening and self-discovery, using metaphors that resonate with the inner child. It aims to calm the mind and warm the heart, offering insights into truths often left unspoken. The narrative reveals essential wisdom that could have transformed lives, making it a gentle yet profound guide to understanding one's true nature.
Exploring the journey of awakening and presence, this book offers insights into experiencing joy and peace as inherent rights. Through personal stories and practical techniques, it guides readers in quieting their minds and opening their hearts to foster a sense of belonging to themselves and life. Author Mary O'Malley shares her transformative experiences, illustrating how she turned her own pain into valuable lessons, encouraging others to embrace their paths toward healing and fulfillment.
Imagine for a moment that all the pressures in your life were off-no problems to fix, no deadlines to meet, no struggles to overcome. Do you feel that sense of spacious relief? It's not an illusion, teaches Mary O'Malley. It really is possible to live with that profound openness every moment, even while tending to our everyday tasks and obligations. What's in the Way Is the Way is the new book from this highly regarded teacher, offering practical guidance for meeting all of our experience with an abiding sense of ease, trust, and peace of mind. This accessible book is divided into 10 phases, featuring inspiring wisdom and step-by-step exercises to heal the core beliefs that keep you stuck With each chapter, Mary invites you to come into the present and see yourself and your circumstances in a different way-with openness and curiosity, unclouded by struggle, judgment, and fear. Discover why Eckhart Tolle calls Mary O'Malley's work "a treasure of practical wisdom and profound insights, all pointing to one essential Truth: how to awaken into present-moment awareness and live in acceptance of what is."
A renowned Irish writer's Odyssey through the sea, the self, and time.
Mary O'Malley moves from the clear topography of her last collection, Where the Rocks Float, to probe the underwater world prefigured in her long poem sequence 'The Cave' from that collection. She does this by a process of inversion as 'The Seal Woman' struggles through her agonising journey from one element to another, entering the mythos to explore the nature of the poet's condition.There are poems of loss and of delight but this is above all a book written out of a fractured torn breath, the gap between languages, the rents in a poem. O'Malley never allows herself the luxury of false certainty but we glimpse occasionally the brilliance of the lost innocence she both regrets and celebrates.
Experimental new collection from award-winning Irish poet
This highly successful comedy is a sharply critical exposition of a Catholic girlhood in a London convent school in the late 1950s. (Cast 4m, 10f)
New collection from a winner of the Eigse Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018.
In Mary O'Malley's new collection, the world's at a precarious tipping point; trust in language is breaking down. The poet gives voices to the wolf, the seal and shark, finding new language against peril.