All John O'Donohue Quotes
- To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames. When the judgmental eye looks out, it sees things in terms of lines and squares. Closed
- Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle. Generous
- We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us. Awakens
- If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm. Allow
- One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference. Always Preserve
- The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy… Ancient
- Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. Displaced
- When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity.… All
- It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly. Dangerous
- Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition. Creativity
- When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge… Call
- In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours. Becomes
- Habit is a strong invisible prison. Habit
- Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water. Anchors
- There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what… Always Secretly
- When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light that is in… Affection
- The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. Force
- Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the mind… Absent
- The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always… Abrupt
- Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a… Burden
- Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When you face your… Alone
- We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the… All
- Celtic spirituality is awakening so powerfully now because it illuminates the fact that the visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is… Awakening
- The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir. Awakens
- We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected… Alive