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Anam Cara~ Soul Friend
~ In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. When you connect with another person and become completely open and trusting with that individual, your two souls begin to flow together. Should such a deep bond be formed, it is said you have found your "Anam Cara" or soul friend.Your "Anam Cara" always accepts you as you truly are, holding you in beauty and light. In order to appreciate this relationship, you must first recognize your own inner light and beauty. This is not always easy to do. The Celts believed that forming an "Anam Cara" friendship would help you to awaken your awareness of your own nature and experience the joys of others. The "Anam Cara" was originally someone to whom you confessed, revealing the hidden intimacies of your life. With the "Anam Cara", you could share your innermost self, your mind and your heart. This friendship was an act of recognition and belonging. When you had an "Anam Cara", your friendship cut across all convention, morality and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way with the "friend of your soul". The Celtic understanding did not set limitations of space or time on the soul. There is no cage for the soul. The soul is a divine light that flows into you and into your Other.
O'Donohue has a beautiful metaphor in his book in which he refers to real friendship as love and "ancient recognition" in the following passage.
"It is as if millions of years before the silence of nature broke, your lover's clay
and your clay lay side by side. Then in the turning of the seasons, your one clay
divided and separated. You began to rise as two distinct clay forms, each hous-
ing a different individuality and destiny. Without even knowing it, your secret
memory mourned your loss of each other. While your clay selves wandered
for thousands of years through the universe, your longing for each other
never faded."
P.S I did not write that & I can not remember what site I found it on. I will post credit as soon as I can find the source:)
These are (some of) my ANAM CARA.........the Friends of my Soul~*~
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Me & My Indigo SUN
I just couldn't resist! This is me & my Sunshine!~~
sometime during the month of august?. Pure Love & Joy he is!
Mommy loves you Nico! Honor OUR children! it is they who will inherit this Earth! namaste~*~ |
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The Angel Pierre
My newest anam cara, born Sept 12th.
He is my kripa, my grace.
namaste~ beautiful sonshine |
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Mikael
MY BELOVED HUSBAND~ When we talk about the witness in our verse,
we talk about you.
A pure heart and a noble demeanor
cannot compete with your radiant face.
They will ask you
what you have produced.
Say to them,
except for Love,
what else can a Lover produce?
~Rumi
namaste~*~
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Infinite Flow
There are those that one loves instantly & forever, just to know one is alive in the world with then is quite enough:)
the Goddess is alive & magick is afoot..
to my sweet sister of the moon...namaste~*~ |
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Adam & Jack ( his cherub of a nephew)
ceremony was devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds. hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown: but where there is true friendship, there needs none ~ that old dead english guy, william something
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