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
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
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
Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. — 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
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
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here… — 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
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
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The life and passion of a person leaves an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there.… — 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
...to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life. — 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
“Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day the blueprint of your life would begin to glow on earth, illuminating all the… — 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
