« All Light Quotes · John O'Donohue's Page
Light 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…
- Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light…
- Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the…
- Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle.
- 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 infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir.
- Somewhere, out at the edges, the night / Is turning and the waves of darkness / Begin to brighten the shore of dawn... The heavy…
- I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it…
- A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this…
- A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.
- All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration…
- Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In…
- If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will…
- It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes…
- You are like nobody since I love you" -Pablo Neruda This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love…
- 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…
- The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive…
- 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…
- We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt