To Bless the Space Between Us Quotes

“A good beginning is half the work.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“There is nothing as un-neutral as a home. Even the most ordinary home is an implicit theater to subversive inner happenings. It is the most self-effacing laboratory of consciousness quietly shaping belief, expectation, and life direction.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“seems that when a person finds himself in extremis and gathers his mind and calls out, something comes awake in the highest regions of destiny. Time behaves differently when blessing is invoked.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“To live like this is to experience time as a constant invitation to growth”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“When a person is at home in his life, he always has a clear instinct about the shape of outer situations; even in the midst of confusion he can discern the traces of a path forward.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“As we grow old, that twilight Would illuminate treasure In the fields of memory.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“In the light and reverence of blessing, a person or situation becomes illuminated in a completely new way. In a dead wall a new window opens, in dense darkness a path starts to glimmer, and into a broken heart healing falls like morning dew. It”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“To refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“We have fallen out of belonging.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced. This is what the “sheltering wall” of blessing can enable.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“The commercial edge of so-called "progress" has cut away a huge region of human tissue and webbing that held us in common with one another.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings