Kyle Small

“One of the greatest conflicts in life is the conflict between the ego and the soul. The ego is threatened, competitive, and stressed, whereas the soul is drawn more toward surprise, spontaneity, the new and the fresh. Real soul has humor, irony, and no obsessive self-seriousness. It avoids what is weary, worn, or repetitive. The image of the well breaking out of the hard, crusted ground is an illuminating image for the freshness that can suddenly dawn within the heart that remains open to experience.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“There is the infinity of the microcosm: one little speck on the top of your thumb contains a whole inner cosmos, but it is so tiny that it is not visible to the human eye. The infinity in the microscopic is as dazzling as that of the cosmos. However, the infinity that haunts everyone and which no one can finally quell is the infinity of one’s own interiority”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“The deepest things that you need are not elsewhere. They are here and now in that circle of your own soul. Real friendship and holiness enable a person to frequently visit the hearth of his solitude;”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom