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From Quotes by John O'Donohue
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground are a constant…
- As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is…
- In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and…
- 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…
- 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…
- The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing…
- Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will…
- If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to…
- When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment can open in…
- Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so…
- There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what…
- You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that…
- I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the…
- This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let…
- Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics,…
- Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from…
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