I had the privilege once of walking the hillside of John O’Donoghue’s home in Ireland. It was with David Whyte, a good friend of his and an amazing poet himself. John passed away in 2008 and I never heard him speak live. Here is a sampling of his work.
“It is a strange and magical fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here… We are wildly and dangerously free… At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in to a free and fluent universe of spiritual belonging.”
“If you are able let go of things, you learn to die spiritually in little ways during your life. When you learn to let go of things, a greater generosity, openness, and breath comes into your life. That release can bring you a completely new divine belonging…” John O’Donohue
