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John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination.
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All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.
When you learn to love and let yourself be loved, you come home to the hearth of your own spirit. You are warm and sheltered.
Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alone can awaken what is divine within you.
If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.
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Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.