Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it , cos I was always asking the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. — John O'Donohue Copy Share
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
“For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is the season… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
“If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.” — John O'Donohue Copy Share
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. — John O'Donohue Copy Share
“There is a poetic import to the phrase ‘without a shadow of a doubt’: in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm. — John O'Donohue Copy Share
Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share
Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens;… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
