John O'Donohue – The Inner Landscape of Beauty
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Secret of Change
i think that if you take time, not as calender product, but as actually the parent or mother of presents, then you see that in the world of spirit, time behaves differently. I mean, when i used to be a priest, it was an amazing thing. You'd see somebody who would be dying over a week maybe, and hi'd lived maybe a hard life where they were knuckled into themselves. And suddenly within three or four days, you'd see them loosen - like there was a recognition that their way of being could no longer help them with this. That another way of being was being invited from them. When they yielded to it, it would become transformative.
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