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Book: Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
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  1. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    A lot of experiences that we have in the world are torn, broken, hard experiences, and in broken, difficult, lonesome experiences you earn a quality of light that is very precious. I often think of it as quarried light.
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  2. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    If you go out for several hours into a place that is wild, your mind begins to slow down, down, down. What is happening is that the clay of your body is retrieving its own sense of sisterhood with the great clay of the landscape.
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  3. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than their facts.
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  4. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    I don't believe that death comes at the end of a life. I believe your death was there at your birth with you. It was the unknown presence. Every step of the road of your life that you take, your death is beside you.
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  5. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.
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  6. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.
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  7. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    I think that we are infinitely greater than our minds and we are infinitely more than our images of ourselves. One of the sad things today is that so many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them. This identity may be totally at variance with the wild energies that are rising inside in their souls. Many of us get very afraid and we eventually compromise. We settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts. We should never forget that death is waiting for us. A man in Connemara said one time to a friend of mine, Beidh
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  8. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfolding possibility.
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  9. John O'Donohue _ Walking in Wonder: Eternal

    We ask that streams of Easter light might flow into the intimacy and privacy of our hearts this morning, to heal us and encourage us and enable us to make again a new beginning.
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