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
life beauty beautiful
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
soul may calm
May your soul calm, console and renew you.
advertising worship longing
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.
giving soul delight
To understand the harvest of your soul against the background of seasonal rhythm should give you a sense of quiet delight at the arrival of this time in your life. It should give you strength and a sense of how the deeper belonging of your soul-world will be revealed to you.
giving thanks ends
So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown.
inspirational grace promise
You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life's desire.
kindness winter grace
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.
heart healing woven
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
lonely pain loneliness
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
fear our-world silence
Our world is becoming more busy and noisy. We are pushing silence out of our lives at a rate that suggests a fear of what it has to say to us about ourselves.
healing light soul
May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul. 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. May your work never weary you.
real eye soul
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.
heart world joyful
The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
inspirational spiritual real
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.