Heartfeld Living


Years ago I had the honor to meet him. John O'Donohue was speaking at a church across from American University. He was a famous Irish poet and philosopher.

I will never forgot how I asked him a question that suddenly emerged out of nowhere. I stood up shaking and stated that I did not fear dying rather how to live. 

He responded that showing courage we then find life. He wrote below;

May I have the courage today
to live 
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more. *

John O'Donohue wrote before he died "The Blessed Space Between Us" in 2008 these paragraphs below;

...To live in the creative life, we always need a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginnings might be ripening. There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different...

...When the heart is ready for a fresh beginnings, unforeseen things can emerge. And in a sense, this what a beginnings does. It is an opening for surprises. Surrounding the intention and the act of beginning, there always exciting new possibilities...*

Also he wrote in the last paragraph of his poem, New Beginnings

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

Further in this book Mr. O'Donohue wrote the shape of the human heart is both a circle and triangle. He observed the heart space as a triad where the self, and its otherness unites into a threefold force-the spirit of friendship. This fellowship becomes greater then the sum of the other two dimensions. 

May we all benefit from John's wisdom and begin once again to a fearless live.
 
I can change my old story by being open to new one. Not judging or assuming what is next allows me to find what has heart and meaningful living.

* Excerpt from, 'A Morning Offering'
BENEDICTUS (Europe) / TO BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US (US)
**John O'Donohue- The Blessed Space Between Us, 2008, pg, 2-3




Years ago I had the honor to meet John O'Donohue. He was speaking at a church across from American University. John was a famous Irish poet and philosopher.

I will never forgot how I asked him a question that suddenly emerged out of nowhere. I stood up shaking and stated that I did not fear dying rather how to live. 

He responded that showing courage we then find life. He wrote below;

May I have the courage today
to live 
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more. *

John O'Donohue wrote before he died "The Blessed Space Between Us" in 2008 these paragraphs below;

...To live in the creative life, we always need a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginnings might be ripening. There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different...

...When the heart is ready for a fresh beginnings, unforeseen things can emerge. And in a sense, this what a beginnings does. It is an opening for surprises. Surrounding the intention and the act of beginning, there always exciting new possibilities...*

Also he wrote in the last paragraph of his poem, New Beginnings

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

Further in this book Mr. O'Donohue wrote the shape of the human heart is both a circle and triangle. He observed the heart space as a triad where the self, and its otherness unites into a threefold force-the spirit of friendship. This fellowship becomes greater then the sum of the other two dimensions. 

May we all benefit from John's wisdom and begin once again to fearless live.
 
I can change my old story by being open to new one. Not judging or assuming what is next allows me to find what has heart and meaningful living.

* Excerpt from, 'A Morning Offering'
BENEDICTUS (Europe) / TO BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US (US)
**John O'Donohue- The Blessed Space Between Us, 2008, pg, 2-3




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