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Anam Cara

The document discusses the Celtic concept of anam cara, meaning 'soul friend,' which emphasizes deep love and understanding in friendships. It highlights the importance of having a soul friend who accepts you without pretense, allowing for a profound connection that transcends distance. This type of friendship fosters a sense of home and unity, even when physically apart.

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Anam Cara

The document discusses the Celtic concept of anam cara, meaning 'soul friend,' which emphasizes deep love and understanding in friendships. It highlights the importance of having a soul friend who accepts you without pretense, allowing for a profound connection that transcends distance. This type of friendship fosters a sense of home and unity, even when physically apart.

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In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding
of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas
here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this
is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and
cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic
world was the "soul friend."
In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam
cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as
you are without mask or pretension. The superficial
and functional lies and half-truths of social
acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are.
Love allows understanding to dawn, and
understanding is precious. Where you are understood,
you are at home.
The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is
not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such
friendship can remain alive even when the friends live
far away from each other. Because they have broken
through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul
level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When
the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured.
Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned
to each other and continue to sense the flow of each
other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the
eternal.

- John O'Donohue

[Image: I have Chosen Her (1925) illustration by Artuš


Scheiner for The Firebird and the Fox Rishka by Karel
Jaromír Erben.]

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