John O'Donohue World Quotations

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen, received, and renewed. It is a lifetime's work.

The world rests in the night.

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

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

the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself.

Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed.

Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.