"the search for meaning is really the search……" — John O'Donohue
"the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself."
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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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When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret…
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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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More Chord Quotes
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
— Annie Besant
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The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to…
— Kobe Bryant
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.…
— Albert Camus
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
— Kate Chopin
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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was…
— Tori Amos
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that…
— Adolf Hitler
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The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from…
— William Greider
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience…
— Philip Pullman
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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