Mary Rose O'Reilley, Quaker Buddhist Shepherd with a Love of Impermanent Things

Mary Rose O'Reilley

Mary Rose O'Reilley is an author, a contemplative and an activist. Author of (at least) 6 books and many more publications, she lives with a concern for the kind of centerness which allows us to live fruitfully and faithfully in the world.


Raised Catholic, attuned to Buddhist thought, and a longtime Quaker activist, she brings rich and diverse perspective to her writing.

Among Mary Rose's writings:

The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology
Half Wild: Poems (Walt Whitman Award)
The Garden at Night: Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life
The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
The Peaceable Classroom


Music featured on this program includes:
Wonderous Love - Annie Grieshop & Mike Ross of Voices of Hopkinton

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Mary Rose O'Reilley Quaker Buddhist Shepherd with a Love of Impermanent Things

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The experiences of her personal spiritual journey are so often the inspiration for Mary Rose’s books, as she shares here regarding "The Peaceable Classroom".
What knits together the diverse threads of Mary Rose O’Reilley’s diverse religious foundation?
Part of Mary Rose’s activism is music, for example…
A poem about Jean Donovan, Maryknoll missionary killed in El Salvador.
What do we most need more of right now? Mary Rose waxes eloquent on the thirst and hunger she sees more prevalent in the world.

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