Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of… — 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
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“A Blessing; May the light of your soul guide you; May the light of your soul bless the work you do with… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly. — 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
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
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
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
“Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world. An object or a person can be reflected in… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
May I live this day... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes — 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
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
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
“TO COME HOME TO YOURSELF May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquillities. May… — 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
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
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
...to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life. — 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
The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused. — 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