May I have the courage today to live the life that I would love, to postpone my dream no longer but do at last what I cam here for and waste my heart… - John O'Donohue

I often think that there is, in every life, some haunted room that you never want to go into, and that you do your best to forget was there at all. You will never break in that door with your mind, or with your will. Only with the gentle coaxing of the imagination will that door be opened to you and will you be given the gift back again of a part of yourself that either you or someone else had forced you to drive away and reject.

We live in a world that responds to our longing; it is a place where the echoes always return, even if sometimes slowly.

I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.