Collette O'Mahony > Quotes

“Like the moon
I have learned
to be beautiful
in darkness.”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“I swing like a pendulum between
the darkness and the light,
sometimes it feels like gallows
other times it feels like flight.”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“You hold me like a favored book
Pressing my spine with your fingers
Leafing through my pages
Anticipating each phrase
You rest me on your knee
As you ponder their meaning
Feeling me weave
Lyrically through your soul
And when you return to me
You devour me from cover to cover”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“There are days I am whole
Some days I feel bruised
A silhouette of verse emerges
To mirror my mood
And with every word
I undress my soul
Baring it to the world”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“If my eyes are covered by shadows
If my lips cannot utter a sound
The truth within me shall find you
By the light of our infinite bond”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“If I fall from love
And I am torn in two
Be gentle with my heart
Forgive my shadows
I must rest awhile
For my wings to spread
And fly back to you”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“As I tore myself from you
I heard a weeping sound
You thread a needle
to darn the hole I left
and embroider a new plan”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“Your true self must shine through to attract the person who mirrors the highest vision of you.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“Pilgrims

Tuscan reds and ochre hues
Olive greens and skies of blue
Sunlit valleys full of charm
Secluded homestead and hilltop farm

Over hills skim birds in flight
Aromas whet the appetite
Autumn rustle fills the air
Revealing grace of trees laid bare

Pathways meander through the vale
Inviting travelers its height to scale
Sunset rewards as evening ends
And pilgrims to the night descend”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“One of the best ways to find out who you are and who you are not is through your relationships with others. Some relationships are meant to be finite, not all relationships are meant to last forever. Mental expectation tries to put permanence on something that was meant to be temporary.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“She emerged out of darkness
To a serenade of divine music
‘What is this?’ she asked
‘It is the song of your soul’
He replied”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“The chrysalis moves
in my solar plexus
fulfilling its mission
to quietly emerge...

then I see you and
a thousand butterflies
migrate into my heart.”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“You plucked me like a flower
from your secret garden;
pressing my petals to your lips,
inhaling deeply of my fragrance.
You placed me in your lapel
so you could feel my presence
close to your heart.
And when the flower faded,
you cast it aside
unaware that I had bloomed
in a million other ways.”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“Until you resolve your relationship with yourself, you can never be fully in a relationship with another. It is by putting your true self at the center of your world that you can give up the need to be rescued and achieve full responsibility for your life.

When you allow love to be at your center, it flourishes in you. When love flourishes in you, it flourishes around you.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“Emotional immaturity is searching for love outside you.
Emotional maturity comes from realizing you are the source of love.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“If both people in a relationship are willing to unlock their past and reveal their root fears, it is entirely possible for the partnership to find balance. Accepting the shadow side within you allows more tolerance of other people’s shadows. When you blame another person for their unresolved fears and a past which shaped their belief system, you are wasting an opportunity to see a mirror of truth.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“We try to divorce our pain
by searching a sea of faces
to ease our inner ache.
Life’s challenge is to
transform our pain
and marry the beauty
within us.”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“I shall love you
With all my love
Not just a portion
Love’s vast expanse
Moves through me
Requiring infinity
To receive it
Expand your heart
Into the infinite
And when this
Body is dust we shall
Find each other
All over again”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“I am woven into you
You are woven into me
Through our combined vision
We can see Eternity”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“I write
I breathe
Words ebb and flow
An ocean of verse
Moves out on the current
To wash up on the shore
Of your infinite soul”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“The Fairy Bride

The fairy bride picked the lock
And tiptoed through the summer wood
She gave no mind to life behind
Or shadows thrown by bad or good

She gave no mind to wrong or right
Or screeching call of owls at night
She listened for the haunting cries
That called her from her blushing bud

Ferns unfurl a tickled fronds
Laughing at her slightest brush
Dewdrops glisten with green eyes
Meadows sway with lightest hush

A captive note arrests her breath
Dreamers weave intricate maze
Lithe and quick she shines the light
Illuminating shadow glades

She gives no mind to life and limb
Or captor’s hiss from deep within
Her purity will seize the thread
Dangling loose from dreamer’s web

She spins a silver spool of light
To catch the rays of stars at night
Now innocence can spread its wings
Making haste for freedom flight

She gives no mind to where they fly
Or how tall grasses lift her high
She clicks the lock and in she glides
All nature hails the fairy bride”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“Perhaps if I kiss you with words
When you read them out loud
They shall vibrate on your lips
And my intention
Becomes your assertion
Uniting us in an ecstasy of sound”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“I feel emotions well
Inside my heart
Pulsating in rhythm
Straining for expression
I reach for pen & paper
And I am set free
On a blank page”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“The secret of real success is to accept who you are, believe in it and stop trying to model yourself on someone else or what you think is expected of you. Aim to shape your life in as many ways that are possible to provide conditions that enhance your true nature and values.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“I started
You finished
I ended
You began
I paused
You continued
I whispered
You sang
I thought
You knew
I lingered
You ran
I looked
You reflected
I am woman
You are man”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“Violations of love in relation to others are punished by feelings of fear. The presence of fear indicates a wrong to be amended. Ignoring your feelings is an infringement of the Law of cause & effect. Your feeling is the effect. Suppressed feelings are a refusal to feel the effect after the cause. To release fear, you must be willing to feel the effect your previous actions have had on others. The mental hiding place of fear uses excuses to avoid feeling. Blame, judgment and projection are mental shields that fear hides behind. Willingness to take responsibility for your life ensures that the effect of your thoughts, words, and actions are immediate. If you impinge on another, you feel it instantly. Also, if there is an infringement on you by a friend or colleague, you feel the effect. If you ignore the feelings imposed on you by another it leads to a victim mentality. Feeling the effect of someone else’s action ensures they must take responsibility for their behavior towards you.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“I weave around your heart
Drawing out your sorrow
In slow-releasing tendrils
I tend to your wounds
And bathe you in tender love”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“Releasing attachment to physical form and trusting your life force is crucial in the healing process. Consciousness is a state of non-attachment. Conscious energy organizes and manifests according to the universal field of intelligence. This is unity having an experience of variety. We are all one energy source yet we are having innumerable variations through the physical world.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“Love begins in mindfulness. Love is expressed in relationship to another but the source is not the relationship. The source of love is within us.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“Beloved'

His eyes contain the history of the world
Of all its inhabitants who come and go
He yields his wisdom freely for all
So human hearts may follow his well-worn tracks

Peace and grace surround him
As Nature shields him in her protective embrace
She moves through him speaking softly
Enchanting tales of her wilderness

Quietly as a leaf finds the forest floor
She brushes his cheek with faintest touch
Reminding him she is his true home
Guarding his footsteps over all terrain

She brings him comfort when darkness falls
Through flickering flames and dancing moonlight
And when he closes his eyes to sleep
She guides his dreams to his soul’s remembrance
Of life as one with the Nature he loves”
― Collette O'Mahony, The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse