John O'Donohue

When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

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These are some quotes by Irish author John O'Donohue Poet, who lived between January 1, 1956 and January 4, 2008.

Quotes by John O'Donohue

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.

John O'Donohue

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Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

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The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

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