John O'Donohue: When Love Awakens In Your Life

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When Love Awakens In Your Life

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with yourself. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home...free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.

— John O'Donohue

Excerpted from Anam Cara