The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself… — 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
Everything and everyone we see, we view through the lenses of our thoughts. Your mind is where your thoughts arise and form.… — 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
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
We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of… — 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
No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation… — 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
When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned… — 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
Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks… — 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
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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