John O'Donohue Inspirational Quotations

If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm.

Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart.

One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference.

We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and yet the heavens aren't full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest.

If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

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.

You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life's desire.

The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.

When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.

In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together.

We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.

In the name of the Fire, The Flame And the Light; Praise the pure presence of fire That burns from within Without thought of time.

The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.