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“ Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical, it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness. ”

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If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

~ John O'donohue

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.

~ John O'donohue

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.

~ John O'donohue

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

~ John O'donohue