“For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is… — 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
Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses,… — 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
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. — 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
Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time… — 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
“One of the most amazing recognitions of the human mind is that time passes. Everything that we experience somehow passes into a… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual,… — 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
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
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation… — 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
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
Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or… — 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
