You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul. — 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
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul. May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of… — 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 human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
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
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
You are like nobody since I love you" -Pablo Neruda This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
All through your life your soul takes care of you...your soul is alive and awakened, gathering, sheltering and guiding your ways and… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too… — 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
Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it… — 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
When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient… — 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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