It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity. — 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
When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. — 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
You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life's… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In the name of the Fire, The Flame And the Light; Praise the pure presence of fire That burns from within Without… — 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
Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
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… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
...to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in… — 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
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
“For Equilibrium, a Blessing: Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief of laughter rinse through your… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger 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
![“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; and yet the heavens aren't full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest.” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8d/john-o-donohue-1919_creatures_we-humans-are-the-only-creatures-who-are_274213.jpg)
![“The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c2a/john-o-donohue-1919_answers_the-idea-of-therapy-isn-t-to-give-people_2908134.jpg)
