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[walterjenkel]

©photography by Walter Jenkel 2026 🎩🩸 Common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus palumbus) WALTERJENKEL @WalterJenkel walter_jenkel

«Al amparo de las tinieblas, cada cosa se refugia en su propia naturaleza.» "Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark." —John O'Donohue 🪶

[mysteriouslyhercrown]

Nothing is Lost

"All through your life, the most precious experiences seem to vanish. Transience turns everything to air. You look behind and see no sign even of a yesterday that was so intense. Yet in truth, nothing ever disappears, nothing is lost. Everything that happens to us in the world passes into us. It all becomes part of the inner temple of the soul and it can never be lost. This is the art of the soul: to harvest your deeper life from all the seasons of your experience".

John O'Donohue

[unfoldingnarratives]

The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb- time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night #JohnODonohue #madrid #night #cityscape #clouds #rest #demadridalcielo #lights https://www.instagram.com/p/CO_RIqDsOrP/?igshid=6jnp3eeb96tw

[soulawakeningblog]

[soulawakeningblog]

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul. As the wind loves to call things to dance, May your gravity by lightened by grace. Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth, May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect. As water takes whatever shape it is in, So free may you be about who you become. As silence smiles on the other side of what's said, May your sense of irony bring perspective. As time remains free of all that it frames, May your mind stay clear of all it names. May your prayer of listening deepen enough to hear in the depths the laughter of god.

JOHN O’DONOHUE, For Equilibrium, a Blessing

[unfoldingmoments]

A Morning Offering

I bless the night that nourished my heart To set the ghosts of longing free Into the flow and figure of dream That went to harvest from the dark Bread for the hunger no one sees. ​ All that is eternal in me Welcomes the wonder of this day, The field of brightness it creates Offering time for each thing To arise and illuminate. ​ I place on the altar of dawn: The quiet loyalty of breath, The tent of thought where I shelter, Waves of desire I am shore to And all beauty drawn to the eye. ​ May my mind come alive today To the invisible geography That invites me to new frontiers, To break the dead shell of yesterdays, To risk being disturbed and changed. ​ May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dream no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more.​ ​ — John O’Donohue

[unfoldingnarratives]

May your prayer of listening deepen enough, to hear in the depths the laughter of god #JohnODonohue #blessings #prayer #family #ritual #candle https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYYG1WsGMi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[unfoldingnarratives]

Well, I think it makes a huge difference, when you wake in the morning and come out of your house, whether you believe you’re walking into dead geographical location, which is used to get to a destination, or whether you’re emerging out into a landscape that is just as much if not more alive as you, but in a totally different form, and if you go towards it with an open heart and a real, watchful reverence, that you will be absolutely amazed at what it will reveal to you #johnodonohue #Patonesdearriba #hike #16km #reveal #landscape @madrid_expats https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHvOFCsXuN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=