Wednesday, July 23, 2008


If you could imagine
the most incredible story ever,
it would be less incredible than the story of being here.
And the ironic thing is
that story is not a story,
it is true.
It takes us so long to see where we are.
It takes us even longer to see who we are.

This is why the greatest gift you could ever dream
is a gift that you can only receive from one person.
And that person is you yourself.

Therefore, the most subversive invitation you could ever accept
is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed.

Plato said in The Symposium
that one of the greatest privileges of a human life
is to become midwife to the birth of the soul in another.
When your soul awakens,
you begin to truly inherit your life.
You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces,
repetitive talk and weary roles
and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are
and who you are called to become.

The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown.
Yet we are afraid of the unknown
because it lies outside our vision and our control.
We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers
of domestication and control.
The normal way never leads home.


by John O'Donohue
We will be remembering him at the Greenbelt Festival
10 am Saturday 23rd August.
Last year he was with us
this year he will be with us in spirit
as we celebrate his life
in a venue which will hold thousands of humans.
Why don't you come?