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John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Language is like the earth. It has a huge vitality.
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music is what language would love to be, if it could
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stress is a perverted relationship to time, so that rather than being a subject of your own time, you have become its target and victim, and time has become routine
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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.
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One way — and I think this is a really lovely way, and I think it’s an interesting question to ask oneself, too. And the question is, when is the last time that you had a great conversation, a conversation which wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture? But when had you last a great conver... See more
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Everyone is an artist. Everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. Consciousness is always consciousness of something. There is no fixed world out there, the world is coming toward you and you are coming toward it. And between the two of you, you actually construct the world. It’s never as given as it actu
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beauty is not a luxury
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
there is very little time or attention given to what you could almost call learning the art of inwardness; or a pedagogy of interiority. That’s why I find the aesthetic things, like poetry, fiction, good film, theater, drama, dance, and music, actually awaken that inside you and remind you that there is a huge interiority within you.
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Tippett:
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.