In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible snd invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together.

John O’Donohue

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

Anam Cara is an old Gaelic term for “soul friend”; anam meaning “soul” and cara meaning “friend”. The term was popularized by Irish author John O’Donohue in his 1997 book Anam Ċara about Celtic spirituality.

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