#169 Soul Journeys (with Owen & Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin)

“All of this art is a metaphor for yourself. You are the song. You are the poem. You are the painting.”

-Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin

What are we for? This timeless question becomes the ground on which brothers Owen and Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin walk in this conversation. As musicians, poets, and teachers, they inherit and carry forward a lineage of song and story that reveals how art is not separate from life but a mirror of it—a way of giving voice to the unspoken parts of ourselves.

Along with their mother, Nóirín Ní Riain (also a previous guest of The Wonder Dome) they’re the leaders of Turas d’Anam, which provides both online and in person experiences offering unique and personal expressions of their rich musical and cultural heritage.

This episode is a meditation on soul and purpose, on tradition and innovation, and on the way beauty sustains us in difficult times. Along the way, we travel from Irish monasteries and chants echoing across the globe, to the words of Seamus Heaney, Rumi, and James Joyce, to the everyday practice of committing poems and songs to memory, allowing them to take root in the body and shape the life of the spirit.

"Turas d’Anam (Journey Of Your Soul)" by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin Often times the step backward lets the soul catch up. So that all our happy hindsight’s harmonise and wisdom builds. Share your luck. Be miserly only with misfortune. In each seismic shudder we learn to trust the ground again, humble again, knowingly broken, unrepentantly wounded, proud to bare pain. Laying claim to the joy factory of your body. No more tariffs, or sanctions. Wage cuts and glass ceilings. Conventions, expenses paid, nor lanyards or company position. Often times, this way you can live in ways others simply will not, develop sides of you others simply would not. So feel the rhythm beyond the beat. Begin with a break, and let your soul catch up.

Show Notes:

* YouTube: “Turas d'Anam (a poem by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin)”

* Turas d’Anam | Celtic Wisdom, Creative Practice, and Tours of Ireland

* "For Ireland I’ll Not Speak Her Name” Digital Album

* Owen and Moley on AppleMusic

* Invitas with David Whyte

* #86 The Deep Heart's Core (with Owen Ó Súilleabháin)

* #97 What the Heart Hears (with Rev. Dr. Nóirín Ní Riain)

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