John O'Donohue (1 January 1956 – 4 January 2008) was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker,[1] and as an author is best known for popularising Celtic spirituality.[2][3] (wikipedia)
Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.
...we are custodians of deep and ancient thresholds. In the human face you see that potential and the miracle of undying possibility.
Celtic spirituality is awakening so powerfully now because it illuminates the fact that the visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is only the shoreline of the magnificent ocean of the invisible.
Everything and everyone we see, we view through the lenses of our thoughts. Your mind is where your thoughts arise and form. It is not simply with your eyes but with your mind that you see the world.
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.
The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.
Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.
When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.