Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
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Rabindranath Tagore
The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
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Lafcadio Hearn
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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Jalaluddin Rumi
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
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Peter Rollins
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol...
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Peter Rollins
More Quotes By John Odonohue
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....
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of...
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can...
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
