John O’Donohue
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Days 96-97 Little Glimpses
I recently discovered a book, "Prayers for Healing 365 Blessings, Poems & Meditations from Around the World" that was shared by an esteemed colleague. I found a second hand copy as this edition is as no longer in print. This… Continue reading
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Days 62-63 Hope
To All Caregivers Far and Wide, May you come to see your life as a quiet sacrament of service, which awakens around you a rhythm where doubt gives way to the grace of wonder, where what is awkward and strained… Continue reading
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Days 117-122 – 11 Truths About Imagination
“I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination,” Keats wrote. Imagination breathes youth & vitality into our lives – if only we will let it. Continue reading
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Days 28-29 “The One Who Dreamed the Universe”
Note: shared by Liz Wessel; an excerpt from "Eternal Echoes" by John O’Donohue. “The one who dreamed the universe loved circles. There is some strange way in which everything that goes forward is somehow still travelling within the embrace of… Continue reading
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Days 339-343 – The House of Surprise
“The passing world survives only in moments of absolute being…” To find beauty in the image of a woman interrupting the lines of a row of drinking fountains is a gift we can unwrap everyday. Thus, our “ordinary” workplace becomes… Continue reading
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Days 318-323 – “The Divine Blueprint”
The more variegated & unusual our soul’s blueprint, the more courage it takes to live it. And the more dazzling the result if that courage & that destiny are embraced. Continue reading
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Days 257-261 – Serenity From The Saints
Poems are prayers, fine photographs are meditations & music is a bed on which to rest the tired heart. I classify great artists as saints. Continue reading
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Days 229-223 – Dreams of Symmetry
“It is the deepest dream of the soul to be in the intimacy of Divine Beauty,” John O’Donohue wrote in his masterpiece: Beauty, The Invisible Embrace. Continue reading
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Days 53-57 – Yellow
Yellow literally has the power to change our energy & raise our mood. The incomparable John O’Donohue wrote, “The presence of color is at the very heart of human life.”…The moment a color enters our eyes it instantly changes our… Continue reading
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Days 1-3 May I live this Day
I arise today By John O'Donohue In the name of Silence Womb of the Word, In the name of Stillness Home of Belonging, In the name of the Solitude Of the Soul and the Earth. I arise today… Continue reading
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