Opposition

"Withstanding the tension between opposites until we know it is "enough" releases us from the swing between one extreme and the other."   Helen Luke

New Story

"The new story we want to help birth is hidden under the louder story of our own self-doubts and the story of history.   If you want to hear a new voice you have to listen very carefully.  Another world is not only possible she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing."  Elizabeth Lesser 

Impermanence

"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Silence

"Daily silence experienced in humility and fervour as an indispensable exercise in spiritual nourishment gradually creates with us a permanent state of silence.   The soul discovers in such a silence unsuspected possibilities.   It realizes that life can be lived out at different levels."   Pierre LaCout

Living Life to the Full

"You're here to live your life to the full.   And when you bring to life everything that calls you from within and without then the time will come for you to journey home to that nest with the great divine circle, bringing back the fruits of a life that didn't allow itself to be limited by fear or smallness or negativity, but dared to believe in the grandeur of it's own possibility."   John O' Donahue

Possibilities

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities.  In the expert's mind there are few."    Shunryu Suzuki

Friendship

"A friend is one who awakens in your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you."   John O' Donahue

Exploration

"The explorer has to remain open to all the possibilities; he cannot afford a closed mind."  Osho

God's Image

"We have done terrible damage to the image of God.   We have caricatured Gad as a moral accountant and done what should never have done: We have frozen the feeling of God and separated the mind of God into war with our own nature.   God has not done that, our thinking has.  This has closed the door on any possibility of entering into our true belonging.   We are victims of longing and we cannot come home."  John O' Donahue

Mind

"The homeless mind often reverts to nostalgia.   It begins to imagine that our present dilemma, rather than being a new threshold of possibility, is in fact a disastrous fall from an ideal past." 

New Psychology

"We need a new psychology to encourage us and liberate us to become full participants in our lives; on that will replace self-watch with self-awakening.  We need a re-birth of the self as the sacred temple of mystery and possibility."   John O' Donahue

Self-Forgiveness

"It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility.   To learn the art of integrating your faults is to begin a journey of healing on which you will regain your poise and find new creativity.   Your soul is more immense than any one moment or event in your past."   John O' Donahue

Perception

"Visualize the mind as a tower of windows.   Sadly many people remain trapped at one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way.   Real growth is experienced when you draw back from that one window, turn and walk around the inner tower of the soul and see all the different windows at await your gaze.   You will be able to see new vistas of possibility, presence and creativity.    Complacency, habit and blindness often prevent you from feeling your life.   So much depends on the frame of vision- the window through which you look."   John O' Donahue  

Outlook

"If we look at the world in a loving way, then the world would rise up before us full of invitation, possibility and depth.   The loving eye is bright because it is autonomous and free."   John O' Donahue