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John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
We have no idea what will land on the shoreline of morning tomorrow. We are always actively involved in receiving and shaping. I think that’s one of the major mistakes we make with time, is that we equate it with space. When in actual fact time is unshaped. Expectation creates the future, and the imagination that you bring to the new dawn will
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I think this is one of the key things in parenting, and the difficulty of raising children in a very, very fast-moving culture: that, again, it’s the difficulty of creating a space where children can actually unfold and where they can be truly accompanied in their journey
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Meister Eckhart
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
I think you see that the gifts that are given to us as individuals are not for us alone, or for our own self-improvement, but they’re actually for the community and to be offered.
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the world is always larger and more intense and stranger than our best thought will ever reach
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
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God” is only our name for it, and the closer we get to it, the more it ceases to be God. So then you’re on a real safari with the wildness and danger and otherness of God. And I think when you begin to get a sense of the depth that is there, then your whole heart wakens up.
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here are individuals holding out on frontlines, holding the humane tissue alive in areas of ultimate barbarity, where things are visible that the human eye should never see. And they’re able to sustain it because there is in them some kind of sense of beauty that knows the horizon that we are really called to in some way.
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Words are really honest presences. They always show what’s going on. Show me the words you use and I’ll have a fair ideas of what’s happening or not happening with you.