There is a quiet light that shines in every heart.\u00c2\u00a0 It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there.\u00c2\u00a0 It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life.\u00c2\u00a0 Without this subtle quickening our days would be empty and wearisome, and no horizon would ever awaken our longing.\u00c2\u00a0 Our passion for life is quietly sustained from somewhere in us that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life.\u00c2\u00a0 This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our very presence here as blessing.\u00c2\u00a0 We enter the world as strangers who all at once become heirs to a harvest of memory, spirit, and dream that has long preceded us and will now enfold, nourish, and sustain us.\u00c2\u00a0 The gift of the world is our first blessing….<\/p>\n
May we all receive blessing upon blessing.\u00c2\u00a0 And may we realize our power to bless, heal, and renew one another.<\/p>\n
— John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us, <\/em>p. xiii, xvi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a quiet light that shines in every heart.\u00c2\u00a0 It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there.\u00c2\u00a0 It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life.\u00c2\u00a0 Without this subtle quickening our days would be empty and wearisome, and no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}