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Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
The hidden heart of beauty offers itself only when it is approached in a rhythm worthy of its trust and showing.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
More often than not the style of gaze determines what we see. There are many things near us that we never notice simply because of the way we see.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Every rainbow is a revelation: the optic through water drops that separates seamless daylight to reveal and display the secret inlay of colours that dwell at the heart of ordinary light.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Imagine: if the mind of the politician and developer could awaken to the ancient integrity of landscape, it would become more and more difficult to damage the beauty of nature.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
criticism and make your heart into a place of torment. Harsh and unrelenting, it finds fault with everything. Even when unexpected acknowledgement or recognition comes your way, this voice will claw at you and make you feel you are unworthy. Nothing can ever be good enough. In some people’s lives this self-critical voice is highly developed and has
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More like a visitation than a solid fact, beauty invests the aura of a person or infuses a landscape with an unexpected intimacy that satisfies our longing. True beauty cannot be invented or manufactured. We ‘cannot bear very much reality’. Neither, it seems, can we bear very much beauty.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. RUMI
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
EVERY LIFE IS BRAIDED WITH LUMINOUS MOMENTS.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
When we address difficulty in terms of the call to beauty, new invitations come alive.