"When people get into therapy, or when they……" — John O'Donohue
"When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in themselves, some unknown source of energy and healing in themselves, where the divinity of who-ness is protected. This is a spiritual quest."
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John O'Donohue
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179 Quotes by John O'Donohue
John O'Donohue has 179 quotes on this site.
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
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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…
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only…
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in…
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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…
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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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We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we…
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown,…
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Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process.…
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More Divinity Quotes
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
— Hosea Ballou
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
— Henry Adams
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
— Roseanne Barr
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
— Bruce Barton
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
— William Blake
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
— Phillips Brooks
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his…
— Samuel Butler
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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity…
— Alan Cohen
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Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my…
— Pindar
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In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had…
— Lee Strobel
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