May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
May I live this day... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The life and passion of a person leaves an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Somewhere, out at the edges, the night / Is turning and the waves of darkness / Begin to brighten the shore of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — 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
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