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10 Home quotes by John O'Donohue

John O'Donohue’s ten short verses on home blend poetic insight with a quiet reverence for place. This compact selection provides a moment of calm contemplation for anyone craving a brief, lyrical pause.

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We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where…

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I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home…

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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given…

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To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul.

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As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and…

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The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision…

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When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.…

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In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where…

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If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease…

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The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here…

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A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.

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“There is a poetic import to the phrase ‘without a shadow of a doubt’: in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow.…

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If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm.

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Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes…

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Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

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