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John O'Donohue has 173 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
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It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the…
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given…
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around…
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To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
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When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
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The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but…
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The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
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When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in…
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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…
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and…
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an…
— Sun Tzu
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Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain…
— Phillips Brooks
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
— Alexander Smith
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Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands,…
— John Muir
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All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on…
— John Muir
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Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special…
— John O'Donohue
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With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,…
— Bob Dylan
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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling…
— Alain de Botton
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Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow…
— Henry David Thoreau
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