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Out 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 life and passion of a person leaves an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows…
- When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home…
- 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.
- 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…
- Somewhere, out at the edges, the night / Is turning and the waves of darkness / Begin to brighten the shore of dawn... The heavy…
- When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind…
- 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…
- We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
- 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…
- 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…
- The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
- Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
- 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…
- The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition.…
- I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big boulder of misery…
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