Elizabeth O'Connor Quotes:

Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.

Topics: Pain, Real, Lying, Shadow Side, Negative Feelings

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

source: - Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

Topics: Important, Tasks, World, Uncovering

Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.

Topics: Art, Creativity, Suffering

One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life is to be feeding, clothing and educating the young. However, their really important ministry is to listen to their children and enable them to uncover the special blueprint that is theirs.

source: - Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

Topics: Children, Parent, Special, Educating The Young

The spiritual law at the core of our being requires that we reach out. We are fulfilled to the extent that we live in relationships.

Topics: Spiritual, Law, Reach Out

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

source: - Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

Topics: Prayer, Silence, Empathy, Listening To God

I am convinced that what has the greatest meaning for us is what we uncover for ourselves.

Topics: Self Esteem, Self Respect, Esteem