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Other Anamcara Definitions

Anam Cara, Irish for "soul friend," and as the great Irish poet and philosopher, John O'Donaghue wrote, "Anam Cara's understand where you are coming from and understanding is precious; where you are understood you are at home. 

From speech by the then Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, TD.

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In Celtic Spirituality, the Anam Cara friendship awakens the fullness and mystery of you life.  You are joined in an ancient and eternal union with humanity that cuts across all barriers of time, convention, philosophy, and definition

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To be a soul friend (Anam Cara) is to provide a place of sanctuary to another where, through our acceptance, love, and hospitality, he or she can grow in wisdom, and both of us in depth.

Edward Sellner

 

W. B. Yeats
– Soul Friend - Mo Anam Cara  

 

mo anamcara - William Butler Yeats


Soul friends will appear at various stages of your lifes journey. William Butler Yeats started calling me around the time this writer was ‘coming home’ – returning to Ireland after thirty years living away. 

One can read the poetry of Yeats and be taken on a journey into the stages of the development of human consciousness. This is the true invitation from poetry. It is an invitation to remember who you are and why you are.

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Kahlil Gibran
– Soul Friend - Mo Anam Cara 

 

mo anam cara - Kahlil Gibran

 

Kahlil Gibran is the third best-selling poet in history after William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu. 

 

 

He really was a renaissance man. His way of expressing his friendship with his soul came through as a poet, painter, sculptor, writer, philosopher, theologian and visual artist.

 

 

Kahlil Gibran was one of my mothers favorite poets. I was graced to read a part of a passage from The Prophet at my mothers funeral. It read..........  

 

 

Love has no other desire than to fulfill itself,

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody into the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

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The Tuatha De Danann and the Law of Attraction

The meaning of Anam cara Friendship

All mystics, all great souls, invite you to do one thing in order to be happy.

This is that you give your life away.

This is not an invitation to martyrdom but service.
One of the growing dynamics in this Western world is increase in depression. The writer Frank Mac Eowen says in The Celtic Way of Seeing that the answer to depression is devotion.

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The Anamcara John O'Donaghue

John O'Donohue - Mo Anam cara – My Soul Friend 

Ireland has gained many things in recent years and lost others. One of her greatest losses was the poet and scholar John O'Donohue who died all to young at the age of 53.


This writer and Anam cara never met with John O'Donohue but he is for me a soul friend who continues to accompany me on my spiritual journey in time and space and form. 

 

 

John wrote in his world classic book Anam cara – Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World. 

 

“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 the Other.”

 

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The Empowerment of Love Talking (geancannach)

 

In “The Celtic Way of Seeing,” by Frank MacEowen the author refers to Celtic love talking as an essential meditation practice that hails from the deeply inspired states of consciousness of the wandering bards.

 

 

This practice of Love Talking is the core practice of The Anamcara Experience – Ready to Radiate eCourse. 

 

 

This is the one true language that everyone who came into this world of form knows but has forgotten. This is the language of the 

 

"summoning voice of the long known well loved." 

 

- Sri Aurobindo"
 

 

It is the voice most all of us are taught to ignore. It is the voice of our real power. This is power we can claim and through our remembering reclaim true empowerment. 

 

 

We all need to do this. There is not anytime for anyone of us to ‘play small.’ 

 

 

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The definition of Anam cara is "Soul Friend" = Anam meaning “soul” and Cara meaning “friend.

 

 

The above is a definition of Anam Cara but it is not the living experience called The Anam Cara Experience.

 

 

The definition of Anam cara will give you more knowledge. You will be more informed. However, in order to discover the true meaning of Anam Cara, in order to experience what the meaning of this Celtic vision of life means you have to become as one who is really ‘in the know.’
 

"Discover the real meaning of Anam cara. Learn to live the meaning of the Anam cara Experience and like All The Great Soul Friends Live Your Life’s Purpose, Passion AND Manifest Spectacular Results!" 
 


The definition of Anam cara will give you a surface understanding but will not make you feel more alive. The definition will not satisfy the spiritual hunger that deep friendship with your soul guarantees.

 

The definition of Anam cara will give you a surface understanding but will not make you feel more alive. The definition will not satisfy the spiritual hunger that deep friendship with your soul guarantees. 

 

Your soul is not a thing. It is the learned ability in HOW TO connect directly to the
 

 

Source Of Unconditional Love”

 

A definition of Anam cara will not take you across the bridge between the two worlds. This learned ability is the bridge between the mystery of being human and the connection to a source that is the radiant source of all wisdom. This transforming experience is the invitation on offer from a true soul friend.
 

 

If more information solved the problems of everyday life then we as individuals should be the happiest people ever. Yet this does not seem to be the case. What we need is not more information but more meaning, more direct experience to satisfy the hunger to belong and to be loved.
 

 

What will give us this real sense of meaning is the language of the soul. This is a language that connects directly to the


   

Source Of Unconditional Love”

 

 

 In the Celtic vision of life this is called geancannach, meaning Love Talk. Everyone can speak it but they have been taught that such a language is dangerous. It is dangerous in the sense that it transforms the heart and the way one sees the world.
 

It is a language that bards, storytellers, wisdom teachers of all time and all traditions have spoken. It is a language that will take you on a magical journey beyond your wildest imagination. This is why it is called transformational. It transforms definition into the magic of what it means to be alive

 

   
How To Live The Life You Are Live Meant To Live!


   
This language of the soul, this radiant source of wisdom has been given new words in the Anam Cara Experience – Ready to Radiate ezine. These are not words that simply give you a definition of Anam Cara. These are words inviting love talk. Love is the real meaning and essence of The Anamcara Experience.
 

The direct connection to the “Source Of Unconditional Love” is the spiritual hunger of our time. It has been the spiritual hunger of all times. This hunger is not satisfied by more information but by more meaning. 

 

The Anam Cara Experience ezine gives you words, images, stories, practices, invitations, poems, metaphor, parables, riddles, wonder tales, folk songs, modern songs – that take you beyond more information into a way of seeing and loving friendship as the real currency of life. This is your purpose, your true passion and true prosperity.    

 

 

The definition of Anam cara will give you more information. It will not, however, align you with the purpose, passion and prosperity of life. Without alignment with your unique purpose – the Anamcara Experience – you will miss your birthright. This is the invitation to a wellspring of joy and meaning. 

 

 

The Anam Cara Experience invites into being "into the know" that is beyond simply knowing about. You are invited to awaken that which is longing to speak the unique sound you alone have come here to resonate. It is the unique way that you can flow into a transformed life as one in love with life, as one who has accepted the invitation to the true meaning of soul friendship.
 

 

We are all called to be friends to ourselves, to our families, our community and ultimately, our world. As Marianne Williamson tells us in her famous quote “Our Greatest Fear”

   

 

 

“Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We are meant to shine, as children do. – From Return to Love.” 

 

 

The poet and storyteller David Whyte says: -


 

"Anyone that does not

bring you alive is too small for you.”  

 

 

 

The radiant source of wisdom that is within you does not play small. It is continuously expansive. It is the call of your soul to engage with a love talk that then becomes love in action. Why not except the invitation and claim your birthright.
 


THE ANAMCARA INVITATION

The invitation to Soul Friendship is always available.  There is, however, a price to pay. You are invited to trade rags for riches. You are invited to give away doubts, fears, sorrows and other rags for the diamond that you already are. There is no greater invitation than to become an Anam Cara - a friend to your soul.

 

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