divine as manifest everywhere and in everything
i am...
"The ultimate faithfulness in life is the faithfulness of landscape. Landscape is always there....Your body is made out of clay, so your body is actually a miniature landscape that has got up from under the earth and is now walking on the normal landscape. 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. " - John O'Donohue
http://www.johnodonohue.com/words
anam cara soul friend, without mask or pretension
TIME IS ETERNITY IN DISGUISE
At Christmas, time deepens. The old year gathers and the New Year becomes urgent to embrace us. Because it is eternity in disguise, time is filled with longing. In the pulse-beat is the life and the longing, all embraced in the great circle of Belonging, reaching everywhere, leaving nothing and no-one out. This embrace is mostly concealed from us who climb the relentless and vanishing escalator of time and journey outside, where space is lonesome with distance. All we hear are whispers, all we see are glimpses; but each of us has the divinity of imagination which warms our hearts with the beauty and depth of a world woven from glimpses and whispers, an eternal world that meets the gaze of our eyes and the echo of our voices to assure us that from all eternity we have belonged and to answer the question that echoes at the heart of all longing: while we are here, where is it that we are absent from? ~~ John O'Donohue (excerpt from BBC Radio 4 "Christmas Reflection" 1998)
BEAUTY
Beauty is always more than the senses can perceive. While it attracts and gladdens the senses, it also raises and refines what we touch, taste, scent, hear and see. Beauty awakens the soul, yet it is never simply ethereal. Beauty offers a profound psychological and indeed mystical invitation. The dream of beauty is the self drawn forth to its furthest awakening, where the senses and the soul are utterly alive and yet in a harmony, brimming with presence. ~~ John O'Donohue, "Beauty: The Invisible Embrace" ("Divine Beauty" in the UK and EU)
CELEBRATION
Celebration is an attentive and gracious joy of presence. When you celebrate, you are taking time to recognize, to open your eyes and behold in your life the quiet miracles and gifts that seek no attention; yet each day they nourish, shelter, and animate your life. The art of belonging in, with, and to your self is what gives life and light to your presence; it brings a radiance to your countenance and a poise to your carriage. When your heart is content, your life can always find the path inwards to this deep stillness in you.
-- John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes)
clean up the mind and get you into the purity of presence. budddhism
THRESHOLDS
It is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual. It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross. ~~ John O'Donohue "Benedictus" ("To Bless The Space Between Us" in the U.S
how we cross is the key thing. Feel the passions of repitions within and cross into new ground...
BEAUTY
Beauty is always more than the senses can perceive. While it attracts and gladdens the senses, it also raises and refines what we touch, taste, scent, hear and see. Beauty awakens the soul, yet it is never simply ethereal. Beauty offers a profound psychological and indeed mystical invitation. The dream of beauty is the self drawn forth to its furthest awakening, where the senses and the soul are utterly alive and yet in a harmony, brimming with presence. ~~ John O'Donohue, "Beauty: The Invisible Embrace" ("Divine Beauty" in the UK and EU) llisten to above interview about more on this.
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