"When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape."
- Anam Cara by John O'Donohue
- Anam Cara by John O'Donohue
John O’Donohue, author of Anam Cara, celebrates the soul that shines like a cloud around the body. He feels that when you become open, appreciative and trusting with another, your souls flow together.
O'Donohue writes, "Friendship is the sweet grace that liberates us to approach, recognize and inhabit this adventure." In Celtic spirituality, the anam cara friendship stimulates the richness and mystery of life. The Irish believe an individual blessed with anam cara, has arrived at a sacred place.
Friendship becomes an act of recognition and belonging.
St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, escaped imprisonment and walked 200 miles from County Mayo to the Irish Coast. He had a vision of an angel who told him to return to Ireland to convert the Irish people to Christianity.
Originally associated with the color blue, St. Patrick's color came from the shamrock whose three leaves stand for the Holy Trinity.
"Wearing of the green" meant wearing a shamrock and fighting against Irish paganism.
Celebrate storytelling. Weave in a bit of "the ol' blarney" (something deceptive or misleading).
Contact a friend to celebrate and renew Friendship along with the wearing of the green.
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