“Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has …
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Fluidity of Being
"For Equilibrium", To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul. As the wind loves to call things to dance, May your gravity by lightened by grace. Like the dignity of moonlight …
The Heart of Individuality
"Each of us brings something alive in the world that no one else can. There is a profound necessity at the heart of individuality. When your life awakens and you begin to sense the destiny that brought you here, you endeavour to live a life that is generous and worthy of the blessing and invitation …
Recognized and Honored
"For too long, we have believed that the divine is outside us. This belief has strained our longing disastrously. This is so lonely since it is human longing that makes us holy. The most beautiful thing about us is our longing; this longing is spiritual and has great depth and wisdom. If you focus your …
The Unknown
"Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown." - John O'Donohue The unknown is always lurking just around the corner. It is that which exists but is of yet beyond the reach of our comprehension. It is that which has not yet manifest and is of yet a figment of the …
The Subversive Invitation
As you know I have long sought to elaborate upon the means by which and through which you might come to live a more generative, meaningful, and purposeful life. My daily posts draw on personal experiences, as I feel writing simply from the standpoint of theory on this topic is of little value, though I …
When your soul awakens…
"Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold …
A Sacred Gift
"May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder." ― John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong Rather than dreading the light of a new day, of fearing its unknowns, and of bemoaning its absences, look instead to rise and great this day with a …
Words of Love
“Beannacht / Blessing" by John O'Donohue On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue …
The Gift of Encouragement
"One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own." - John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong I realized in a new way today one of …
Gregory Hake 