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
The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close. — 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
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
When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. — 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
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells.… — 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
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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