Exploring Profound Wisdom: A Collection of John O’Donohue Quotes
Be patient with your self, nothing in nature blooms all year.
A new beginning is a promise full of potential.
The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow thinner.
Your body is not a thing. It is a fathomless potential, shaped moment to moment by the way you are present and attentive to it.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.
One of the greatest stains of human dignity is the effect of judgement.
Behind the facade of our normal lives, eternity is at play.
Every human heart is like a vessel that carries the wisdom of a timeless journey.
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
Within the grip of winter, it is almost impossible to imagine the spring.
When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.
Each day is a secret story woven around the radiant heart of wonder.
May the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
The duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
Every place is the center of the world.
The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect form.
May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work.
The soul is the ancient echo of the cosmos.
Our deepest essence is dawned in mystery.
Nature mirrors the freedom of the soul.
Imagination is the invisible path where the old suffers transformation into the new.
Beauty bursts us out of the prosaic to gaze in amazement at the unexpected.
Find the quiet centre of your life and create an abode of silence where your soul can awaken.
The divine imagination frees us from a dead and oppressive routine.
Belonging is the enchantment of interrelationship.
Courage is a spark from the secret self that rescues us from the snare of fear.
In the heart of time is memory and in memory is your eternal home.
Creativity is the radiant dawn of each new day, pulsing with an unrepeatable blessing.
Life is fluid and to dance with life is to carry a joyful heart.
The duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
Trust your soul to harvest what it came to do.
Behind the momentousness of daily life, each person has a quiet conversation with solitude.
Beauty is the divine signature of everything that is.
The invisible beauty is only visible to the awakening mind.
Wonder is the luxury of the mind.
Destiny is the push of our instincts to the pull of our purpose.
Friendship, like the immensity of the universe, is never apart, always embracing us with its subtle intimacy.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn to live so as to awaken the eternal within oneself.
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, books and even in ourselves.
A life that is truly lived is constantly creative.
The world secretes wonder, and every being has an instinct for it.
No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance.
Blessed be the longing that brought you here and quickens your soul with wonder.
Blessed is the kit within your heart that knows there is dignity in failure.
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself.
At birth, we emerge as tiny beings, full of promise and mystery, still echoing with the music of the spheres.