"When you steal a people's language, you leave……" — John O'Donohue
"When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered."
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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 Bewildered Quotes
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by…
— Jean Cocteau
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
— Damon Hill
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No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
— Daniel Boone
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Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a…
— Sun Tzu
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
— Terry Pratchett
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God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already…
— Max Lucado
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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality…
— Howard Zinn
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I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively,
— Michael Jackson
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