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Book: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
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  1. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.
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  2. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    In the beginning was the dream...In the eternal night where no dawn broke, the dream deepened.Before anything ever was, it had to be dreamed...If we take Nature as the great artist, then all presences in theworld have emerged from her mind and imagination. We arechildren of the earth's dreaming. It's almost as if Nature is indream and we are her children who have broken through thedawn into time and place. Fashioned in the dreaming of theclay, we are always somehow haunted by that; we are unableever finally to decide what is dream and what is reality. Eachday we live in what we call reality, yet life seems to resemblea dream. We rush through our days in such stress and intensity,as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the worlddepended on us. We worry and grow anxious - we magnifytrivia until they become important enough to control our lives.Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporarysojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowlyin the infinite night of the cosmos...{.....}There is no definitive dividing line between reality and dream.What we consider real is often precariously dream-like.Our grip on reality is tenuous...
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  3. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence."
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  4. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere.
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  5. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often "make strange" with each other.
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  6. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. ... It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance.
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  7. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    You travel certainly, in every sense of the word. But you take with you everything that you have been, just as the landscape stores up its own past. Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere.
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  8. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos."
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  9. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    The human heart is a theater of longing.
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  10. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.
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  11. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.
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  12. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened.
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