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
imagination soul desire
Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives.
inspiration visitors surprising
Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
imagination mind wish
When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that you can begin to see.
inspirational essence matter
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
integrity artist creative
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
inspiration light color
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.
art love-you love-is
You are like nobody since I love you" -Pablo Neruda This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person's individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it can decipher identity and destiny
simple journey discovery
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it.
eagles views wings
As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is flat and dull in times of gray endurance, may your imagination continue to evoke horizons.
believe heart thinking
I don't believe you have to get a peaceful heart, I think there is a native tranquility within each of us that's already there. And through quieting your mind and your heart, you can slip right down into it.
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.