All John O'Donohue Quotes
- In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen,… Adult
- Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless. Belong
- It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another… Alone
- The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by… Blessing
- If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from… Blessing
- To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you. Attuned
- When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning. Await
- The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people… Answers
- The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter. Completely
- When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in themselves, some unknown… Divinity
- We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and… Belong
- In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and… Ancient
- Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in… Birth
- Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light… Addiction
- Art is the essence of awareness. Art
- If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve love, when the… Acceptance
- At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in… Belonging
- Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given… Afraid
- When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green… Awaken
- Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day. Brightness
- Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in… Bland
- What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals… Ancient
- When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way… Across
- The life and passion of a person leaves an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows… Build
- To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul. Able