“FOR SUFFERING May you be blessed in the holy names of those Who, without you knowing it, Help to carry and lighten… — John O'Donohue Suffering Copy Share Image
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery.… — John O'Donohue Bland 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 Beats Copy Share Image
To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul. — John O'Donohue Able Copy Share Image
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done… — John O'Donohue Courage Copy Share Image
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When… — John O'Donohue Destiny Copy Share Image
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly… — John O'Donohue Ancient 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 Fire 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 Doe Copy Share Image
When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. — John O'Donohue Language Copy Share Image
In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has… — John O'Donohue Adults Copy Share Image
The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the… — John O'Donohue Beauty 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 Beloved 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 Fear 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 Art Copy Share Image
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. — John O'Donohue Imagine Copy Share Image
“We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect,… — John O'Donohue Belonging 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 Affection Copy Share Image
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often -… — John O'Donohue Against Copy Share Image
When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient… — John O'Donohue Ancient Copy Share Image
When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its… — John O'Donohue Challenges Copy Share Image
There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our… — John O'Donohue Adventure Copy Share Image
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. — John O'Donohue Bleakness Copy Share Image
