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
We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep… — 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
Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes… — 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
We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where… — 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
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
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this… — 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
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