2025: Index O

 O'Donohue, John - A00167

"Often it takes a huge crisis or trauma to crack the dead shell that has grown ever more solid around us.  Painful as that can be, it does resurrect the longing of the neglected soul.  It makes a clearance.  Again we can see the horizons and feel their attraction.  Though we may wince with vulnerability as we taste the exhilaration of freedom, we feel alive!"  (08/08/2022)

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O'Reilley, Mary Rose - A00168

"Whatever your eye falls on -- for it will fall on what you love -- will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye.  The things of this world draw us where we need to go."  (02/25/2022)

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Obaku

"There are no Zen masters.  There is only Zen."  (12/12/2025)

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Oemaru

"The firefly

    "Gives light

        "To is pursuer" (08/15/2025)

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Okumura, Shohaku

"As flying is the essential thing for a bird to be a bird, to study the self is the essential thing for us human beings to be human."  (08/30/2025)

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Oliver, Mary - A00169

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.  It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.” (03/04/2025)

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Osho - A00170

"I live my life based on two principles.  One, I live as if today was my last day on earth.  Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever."

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"To be creative means to be in love with life.  You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it."

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Ouspensky, P. D.

"It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." (04/01/2025)

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