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
faces depth entirety
...to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.
integrity privilege duty
We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
balance care your-soul
You lose the balance of your sould if you not learn to take care of yourself.
symphony world harmony
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.
friendship love-you mirrors
The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul.
discovery desire transformation
The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.
anchors ideas water
Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water.
awaken eternal gradually individual sacred
The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.
admire art hear mozart nowadays piece present suddenly unusual wonderful
When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.
enduring friendship great modern obstacles people rushing takes time
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.
amazing beauty best catholic church content hold mystical structure system
The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition. It has a mystical system and content that can hold its own with the best out of Tibet... its an amazing tradition, but I think you need to be critical.
expectation trust
If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.
abruptly community family future happen lost minute trust
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.
emerges
There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.