Anam Cara

Meister Eckhart writes beautifully about this temptation. He says many people wonder where they should be and what they should do, when in fact they should be more concerned about how to be.

Two friends, one soul.”

could be a meeting on the street, or at a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is the flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

When you fall in love, common sense, rationality, and your normal serious, reserved, and respectable persona dissolve. Suddenly you are like an adolescent again; there is new fire in your life.

friend is different from an acquaintance. Friendship is a deeper and more sacred

This perspective discloses the beautiful fulfillment of our immortal longing in the words of Jesus, who said, Behold, I call you friends. Jesus, as the son of God, is the first Other in the universe; he is the prism of all difference. He is the secret anam

In everyone’s life, there is great need for an anam ara, a soul friend.

Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and ara is the word for friend.

No one can hurt you as deeply as the one you love.