Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, 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
A person's beauty is sophisticated and sacred and is far beyond image, appearance or personality. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out… — 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
“When you become vulnerable, any ideal or perfect image of yourself falls away. (...) Many people are addicted to perfection, and in… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light… — 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
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
The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the… — 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
“The philosopher Schopenhauer said, 'Opposites throw light upon each other.' Beauty does not belong exclusively to the regions of light and loveliness,… — 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
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
“Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.” — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
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 Image
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“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 Image
If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
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 Image
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
