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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
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- John O'Donohue
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- Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1956 to 2008; Wikidata Q1239495, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239495 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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