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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace Quotes

One of the greatest treasures in the world is a contented heart - John O'Donohue quote

One of the greatest treasures in the world is a contented heart.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Everywhere there is tenderness, care and kindness, there is beauty.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhere around us, the reign of quantity extends and multiplies. Sadly the voyage of greed has all the urgency but no sense of destination. Desire becomes inflated and loses all sense of vision and proportion. When beauty becomes an acquisition it brings no delight.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty’s visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

If we choose to journey on the path of truth, it then becomes a sacred duty to walk hand in hand with beauty.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

The heart of all creativity is the awakening and flowering of individuality. The mystery and magic of being an individual is to live life in response to the deep call within – the call to become who we were dreamed to be.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

It is a wonderful day in a life when one is finally able to stand before the long, deep mirror of one’s own reflection and view oneself with appreciation, acceptance, and forgiveness. On that day one breaks through the falsity of images and expectations which have blinded one’s spirit. One can only learn to see who one is when one learns to view oneself with the most intimate and forgiving compassion.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you. Moments of beauty begin to braid your days.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

When we awaken to the call of Beauty, we become aware of new ways of being in the world.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Light never shows the same mountain twice. Only the blindness of habit convinces us that we continue to live in the same place, that we see the same landscape. In truth no place ever remains the same because light has no mind for repetition; it adores difference. Through its illuminations, it strives to suggest the silent depths that hide in the dark.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

To experience beauty is to have your life enlarged.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

When the imagination is alive, the life remains youthful.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Beauty calls us beyond ourselves and it encourages us to engage the dream that dwells in the soul.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Beauty is quietly woven through our days.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

The beauty of the earth is the first beauty. Millions of years before us the earth lived in wild elegance. Landscape is the first-born of creation. Sculpted with huge patience over millenia, landscape has enormous diversity of shape, presence and memory. There is a poignancy in beholding the beauty of landscape: it often feels as though it has been waiting for centuries for the recognition and witness of the human eye.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

The earth is our origin and destination. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

The wonder of the Beautiful is its ability to surprise us. With swift, sheer grace, it is like a divine breath that blows the heart open.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

When the soul is alive to beauty, we begin to see life in a fresh and vital way.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

The imagination creates a pathway of reverence for the visitations of beauty.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

When we hear the word ‘beauty’, we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).