Once a Catholic: A Comedy

O'Malley, Mary

Samuel French, Inc.

Belonging to Life" offers an invitation into the rapture of being alive — the joy of belonging to a greater process and the deep healing of being present in our own lives. Mary O'Malley explores ways to cultivate this by sharing stories, ideas and techniques that invite us into this wondrous place that we knew when we were very young.
For most of our existence we have lived in afterthoughts and projections, a dream laid over the magic, wonder and mystery of the living moment. What we truly desire is direct, intimate contact with life the moment that it appears out of Mystery, for this is the only place that is totally real, truly vibrant and completely alive. It holds all the love we dream of and is where we can again engage creatively with the awesome unfolding that is our lives. 
To know moments of opening out of fear and separateness into the fullness of life transforms our whole experience. We discover safety, joy, creativity, compassion for ourselves and others, and we rediscover the wholeness that we truly are and the greater process that we are part of.

Belonging to Life: The Journey of Awakening

Self-Help

Happiness

Awakening

"Healing and Being Healed By Our Compulsions" explores a way to work with compulsions that not only heals our need to be compulsive in the first place, but also uncovers the wellspring of deep wisdom underlying our compulsions that can guide us into the joy, peace, and freedom that is our birthright. This book is for everyone for, to some degree we are all compulsive, with our compulsions ranging from over-working, over-spending and over-worrying to overeating and drugs. We have thought that the only solution was control, but in trying to control our compulsions, they end up controlling us. If we do eliminate one, it seems another one usually takes its place. There is another way to work with compulsions, a way that will heal us to the core of our being. Using exercises and a powerful process of working with questions, this book will transform your way of being with all of the challenges of your life so you can know again the joy that is your birthright.

Healing & Being Healed By Our Compulsions

Awaken Publications

This book invites you on the most important journey you will ever take: the journey back to yourself and to a trust-filled connection with Life. On this journey, you will discover how to weave every part of yourself into your own heart so that you can know the joy of being fully here for Life. The book is filled with teachings, stories and exercises which will guide you every step of the way on this journey. It is a book to enjoy, to work with, and to keep by your favorite reading chair for times when you need to be reminded of its timeless truths.

What's In the Way IS the Way

Parenting & Relationships

The Magical Forest of Aliveness is a wonderfully wise story which equips the inner child with metaphors to open the way for awakening to one's true nature. It's a sweet, simple, and wise poetic journey into human awakening that calms the mind, warms the heart, and speaks directly to the soul. A marvelous tale about the "stuff no one ever told us," but that would have changed our lives if they had.

The Magical Forest of Aliveness: A Tale of Awakening

Personal Transformation

Mary O'Malley invites you on a journey back to yourself and to a trust-filled connection with life. On this journey, you will discover how to bring every part of yourself into your own heart to be healed so that you can know the joy of being fully here for life. This book is filled with teachings, stories and exercises that will guide you every step of the way. It is a book to enjoy, to work with, and to keep by your favorite reading chair for times when you need to be reminded of its timeless truths. Foreword by Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations With God

What's in the Way Is the Way

Imagine for a moment that you had no pressures in your life―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 all the time, even while tending to your everyday tasks and obligations. In What’s in the Way Is the Way, Mary offers practical guidance for meeting all of your experience with an abiding sense of ease, trust, and peace of mind.
 This accessible book is divided into ten 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―unclouded by preconceptions, struggle, or fear. Join her on this illuminating journey to discover:
 • How fear controls our lives―untangling the conditioning that keeps us from trusting our complete experience • The healing power of curiosity―a natural way to meet our lives without needing to change or judge anything • Trusting what happens even when we feel threatened, ashamed, or afraid • Why we become more active, engaged, and effective when we stop "doing" life and start being fully present for our lives • Remembering exercises―simple, powerful practices for reconnecting with our natural state of curiosity, trust and love
 "No object, person, or experience will ever bring you the deep and lasting peace that comes from simply being open to life," writes Mary. With What’s in the Way Is the Way, this renowned teacher brings you a powerful guide for turning your obstacles into your greatest allies and teachers―and showing up for your life with all your vulnerability, passion, and magnificent perfection.

What's in the Way Is the Way: A Practical Guide for Waking Up to Life

SOUNDS TRUE.

In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O’Malley’s sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland’s west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to ‘swallow light through his skin’, a wolf ‘howls the great open vowel of his need’, and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, ‘a tree-shaped brightness dances’. Over the course of the collection, O’Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis Mór with Coney Island, the parish with the metropolis, the pipes with the axe, each offering its own comfort and wonder. Sylvia Plath, Lois Lane and Antigone feature in an unlikely cast of heroines through which O’Malley tests the mythologies of motherhood and femininity (‘no mother is ever good enough until she’s dead’, writes the poet, with characteristic wit). Playing the Octopus is a body of writing buoyed by the redemptive power and sustaining joy of music, and it closes with O’Malley’s translations of the Irish poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and the Spaniard Federico García Lorca.

Playing the Octopus

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Carcanet Press Ltd.

<div>What is time? Our understanding of it changes, between when the angels rejoiced at the incarnation to when Einstein and then Feynman reconceived it. In the strange, unregulated and disorienting world of the web we experience it in new ways, its predictabilities wrested from us. In Mary O'Malley's Demeter and Persephone sequence, time is experienced through generations, but the new gods play differently and spin the clock hands in their own mischievous ways. New generations find the time-patterns and expectations of their predecessors arcane and incomprehensible, and vice versa. Through mythology and ecology, this book sets out to restore connections. The book opens with oranges orbiting a winter kitchen. Time in its dozen guises moves through the poems, as does fate. Mary O'Malley was appointed 2019 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.</div>

Gaudent Angeli

The poems of The Shark Nursery respond to a disturbed world. The experience of lockdown, of lives lived in an online reality, and of the animal world are the interlocking parts of the poems' world. The animal poems draw on the tradition of animals in Irish poetry and myth. From the wolf's touch to the rat's tweet, animals and fish refuse the roles human beings impose on them. O'Malley's animals find new language in the face of contemporary perils.In fusing mythic with modern elements, The Shark Nursery is marked by rigorous attention to language and tone. Its poems weave between human, animal and metaphysical realms. In a space before noise begins, tigers visit cities and a white leopard sits on a lawn in Suburbia. In the strange, sealed off world portrayed in the 'The Ballad of Googletown' - an eerie, genuine ballad, where the familiar tropes and refrains of ballad are hung out to dry - lives are lived online and social interaction is unnecessary.This new book promises, as Joseph O'Connor has written, all those things 'we go to Mary O'Malley for: truthfulness, seriousness, playfulness, too, and then a particular sort of hesitating and hard-won wisdom.'

The Shark Nursery

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