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John O'Donohue

“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.”

John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
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Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong by John O'Donohue
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