John O'Donohue Quotes

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• 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,…
• Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
• When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
• 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…
• The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light…
• Art is the essence of awareness.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.

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