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[paintmyworldrainbow]

🌹 SUFFERING 🌹

“May you be blessed in the holy names of those Who, without you knowing it, Help to carry and lighten your pain.

May you know serenity When you are called To enter the house of suffering.

May a window of light always surprise you.

May you be granted the wisdom To avoid false resistance; When suffering knocks on the door of your life, May you glimpse its eventual gifts.

May you be able to receive the fruits of suffering.

May memory bless and protect you With the hard-earned light of past travail; To remind you that you have survived before And though the darkness now is deep, You will soon see the approaching light.

May the grace of time heal your wounds.”

-For Suffering, by the Celtic poet John O'Donohue

Image: Suffering, acrylic gouache on watercolor paper, card artwork for the #MetamorphosisOracle 🦋

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[mysteriouslyhercrown]

Nothing is Lost

"All through your life, the most precious experiences seem to vanish. Transience turns everything to air. You look behind and see no sign even of a yesterday that was so intense. Yet in truth, nothing ever disappears, nothing is lost. Everything that happens to us in the world passes into us. It all becomes part of the inner temple of the soul and it can never be lost. This is the art of the soul: to harvest your deeper life from all the seasons of your experience".

John O'Donohue

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[unfoldingmoments]

A Morning Offering

I bless the night that nourished my heart To set the ghosts of longing free Into the flow and figure of dream That went to harvest from the dark Bread for the hunger no one sees. ​ All that is eternal in me Welcomes the wonder of this day, The field of brightness it creates Offering time for each thing To arise and illuminate. ​ I place on the altar of dawn: The quiet loyalty of breath, The tent of thought where I shelter, Waves of desire I am shore to And all beauty drawn to the eye. ​ May my mind come alive today To the invisible geography That invites me to new frontiers, To break the dead shell of yesterdays, To risk being disturbed and changed. ​ May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dream no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more.​ ​ — John O’Donohue

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[unfoldingnarratives]

May your prayer of listening deepen enough, to hear in the depths the laughter of god #JohnODonohue #blessings #prayer #family #ritual #candle https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYYG1WsGMi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[jeannenewhall]

When you travel, A new silence Goes with you, And if you listen, You will hear What your heart would Love to say… #johnodonohue #travel #silence #intogreatsilence #listen #understanding #compassion #waterfalls #waterfall #heart #musiciansofinstagram #composer #songwriter #singer #piano #pianocover #pianomusic #pianoplayer #producer #musician https://www.instagram.com/p/CiEo2J4v8hh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[kimeupton]

“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.” John O'Donohue . Day 2 of #liturgyofthelittlethings . A tiny drop of dew in a magnificent yellow zucchini blossom. #nature #garden #hope #anamcara #johnodonohue #liturgyofthelittlethings https://www.instagram.com/p/CfbtP1KOwEb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[primordialsoundmeditation]

When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, we can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. The slowness and stillness gradually takes us over. Our breathing deepens and our hearts calm and our hungers relent. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth.

This invitation to friendship with nature does of course entail a willingness to be alone out there. Yet this aloneness is anything but lonely. Solitude gradually clarifies the heart until a true tranquility is reached. The irony is that at the heart of that aloneness you feel intimately connected with the world. Indeed, the beauty of nature is often the wisest balm for it gently relieves and releases the caged mind.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)

Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Kerry, Ireland

Photo: © Ann Cahill

#johnodonohue

[thewomenshealthclinic]

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[stillnessforhappiness]

For many years I’ve been a fan of the Irish priest Hegelian philosopher poet John O’Donohue. This morning’s post by Lindsay Teychenne reminded me of the beauty of ‘homecoming’. YOUR TRUE HOME Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, you return having lost some of yourself. Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness, the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality. In a sense this is the endless task of finding your true home within your life. It is not narcissistic, for as soon as you rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world. No longer on the run from your aloneness, your connections with others become real and creative. You no longer need to covertly scrape affirmation from others or from projects outside yourself. This is slow work; it takes years to bring your mind home. JOHN O'DONOHUE . . Pic taken during my time in Phillip Island in Victoria, Jan 2021. . . . #homecoming #yourtruehome #hegel #johnodonohue #travel #nature #alone #alonequotes #aloneness #lonely #home #nomad #nomadlife #truelove #true #spiritualconnection #creative #affirmation #photooftheday #beingalone #cominghome #beauty #beautiful #philosophy #irish #instagood #instablackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #naturelovers #philosophy #irishpoet (at Phillip Island, Victoria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYsuSJnP_hC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[soulawakeningblog]

#home #johnodonohue #selfdiscovery #poem #poetry

[shawnparell]

When near the end of day, life has drained Out of light, and it is too soon For the mind of night to have darkened things, No place looks like itself, loss of outline Makes everything look strangely in-between, Unsure of what has been, or what might come. In this wan light, even trees seem groundless. In a while it will be night, but nothing Here seems to believe the relief of darkness. You are in this time of the interim Where everything seems withheld. The path you took to get here has washed out; The way forward is still concealed from you. "The old is not old enough to have died away; The new is still too young to be born." You cannot lay claim to anything; In this place of dusk, Your eyes are blurred; And there is no mirror. Everyone else has lost sight of your heart And you can see nowhere to put your trust; You know you have to make your own way through. As far as you can, hold your confidence. Do not allow confusion to squander This call which is loosening Your roots in false ground, That you might come free From all you have outgrown. What is being transfigured here in your mind, And it is difficult and slow to become new. The more faithfully you can endure here, The more refined your heart will become For your arrival in the new dawn.

#johnodonohue #poetry

[mwlsn]

Donegal, Ireland

“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 this is in our own hearts.”  - John O’Donohue/ Walking in Wonder

#landscape #ireland #johnodonohue #wildness

[abouthelight]

“ . . . in conversation with itself.”

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[megpie]

"One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people." -- John O'Donohue. #quoteslover #quotestagram #johnodonohue I'm a big, tangled ball of complicated contradictions. I'm also a simple girl, easy to get along with, go with the flow, generous with love. I've got baggage, and broken pieces, and hurts, and cracks. I'm also poetry, if you listen, and art, if you learn to look at me the right way. I am so deeply good at seeing the best and most beautiful parts in others. But, so often feel like no one really understands me.... 🖤🌙 Anyone else? #storyteller #lifeisastory #lifeiswhatyoumakeit #makelifebeautiful #makeyourownmagic #findingmyself #shesawitch #loveherwild #wildchild #strongwomen #trustingtheuniverse #intuition #innervoice #empathsbelike #EmpathProblems #anxietybelike #anxietylife #depressionbelike #mentalhealthsupport #mentallyexhausted #chronicallyill #chronicillnesses #spoonie #spoonielife #autoimmunedisease (at Yakima, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXGUy4py_2/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[unfoldingnarratives]

Well, I think it makes a huge difference, when you wake in the morning and come out of your house, whether you believe you’re walking into dead geographical location, which is used to get to a destination, or whether you’re emerging out into a landscape that is just as much if not more alive as you, but in a totally different form, and if you go towards it with an open heart and a real, watchful reverence, that you will be absolutely amazed at what it will reveal to you #johnodonohue #Patonesdearriba #hike #16km #reveal #landscape @madrid_expats https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHvOFCsXuN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[believe-hope-persevere]

“When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the #geography of your #destiny better than you do." ~ #JohnODonohue We may not be traveling abroad any longer, but I absolutely love coffee in #Colorado with a bite of the Rocky Mountains. #fuelformysoul (at Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnPcUUvF-9F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lzes9itz52q7

#geography #destiny #johnodonohue #colorado #fuelformysoul