John O'Donohue
John O'Donohue
John O'Donohuewas an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker, and as an author is best known for popularising Celtic spirituality...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 January 1956
CountryIreland
home elements achieve
As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and the work. You seldom achieve all the elements of the ideal, but it travels with you as the criterion and standard of what true belonging could be.
blessing window eternal
When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.
twilight color relaxation
Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.
miracle faces custodians
...we are custodians of deep and ancient thresholds. In the human face you see that potential and the miracle of undying possibility.
ocean vision littles
Celtic spirituality is awakening so powerfully now because it illuminates the fact that the visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is only the shoreline of the magnificent ocean of the invisible.
eye views mind
Everything and everyone we see, we view through the lenses of our thoughts. Your mind is where your thoughts arise and form. It is not simply with your eyes but with your mind that you see the world.
doors light imagination
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.
world mortals eternal
The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.
progress linear
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.
wall cutting science
Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.
people soul language
When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
self ego identity
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
integrity privilege duty
We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
writing thinking people
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 attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call “soft” thinking.