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Somewhere in the Celtic mind was a grounding perception that humans are the inheritors of this deeper world.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
What if the opposite of loneliness is finding ourselves together? What if friends aren’t threats or competitors but gifts?
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
And silence is one of the great victims of modern culture. We live in an intense and visually aggressive age; everything is drawn outwards towards the sensation of the image. Because culture is becoming ever more homogenized and universalist, image has such power. With the continued netting of everything, chosen images can immediately attain univer
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Key figures from your imaginary tribe (the modern version of angels and saints) are with you: their perspective, their habits, their ways of looking at things are in your mind, just as if they were really by your side whispering in your ear. And so we can confront the difficult stretches of existence not simply on the basis of our own small resourc
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you th
But we have to let go in order to be; we have to stop forcing our selves, or we will never enter our own belonging.