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A Friendship Blessing

May you be blessed with good friends. May you learn to be a good friend to your self.

May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love, warmth, feeling and forgiveness.

May this change you.

May it transfigure that which is negative, distant or cold in you.

May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship and affinity of belonging.

May you treasure you friends.

May you be good to them and may you be there for them; may they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth and light that you need for your journey.

May you never be isolated; but may you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with you Anam cara.

John O'Donohue

Anam Cara - Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

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RADIANT SONG

"You've Got a Friend"

Carol King

When you're down and troubled
And you need some loving care
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
You've got a friend

If the sky above you
Grows dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind begins to blow
Keep your head together
And call my name out loud
Soon you'll hear me knocking at your door

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there

Ain't it good to know that you've got a friend
When people can be so cold
They'll hurt you, and desert you
And take your soul if you let them
Oh, but don't you let them

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again

Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
You've got a friend

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When soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away; it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, and loss of meaning.

Our temptation is to isolate these symptoms or to try to eradicate them one by one; but the root problem is that we have lost our wisdom about the soul, even our interest in it."

-- Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul

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Campbell once again draws on his masterful gift of storytelling to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and transformation.

Looking at the more personal, psychological side of myth, he begins to dwell on life's more important questions — those that are often submerged beneath the frantic activity of our daily life. With characteristic wit and insight, he draws connections between ancient symbols and modern art, schizophrenia

Meeting with your Mo Anam Cara

"Recognizing your Mo Anamcara"

Recognizing Your Mo Anam cara

Your 'Mo Anam cara' (my soul friend) is more than simply your latest romantic flame. They are more on fire and they will set you afire with passion and guide you toward compassion.

A Mo Anam cara invites you to realize your deepest inspiration. Your Anam cara is a friend of your spirit, your creative sense of self. They are committed to realizing the potential that resides within you.

So, how do your recognize a Mo Anam cara?

You sense yourself coming alive when you are around them. You sense that when they are talking to you that something new is being born within you. You feel valued for who you are and not simply for the role you are playing - be that the role of husband, wife, partner, mother, teacher or any other role that you may play in that person's life.

A Mo Anam cara is interested in flowering one thing in your life that is your birthright. This is your direct knowing of the timeless dimension within you. They invite you to the Source of unlimited creative potential within you.

It is likely that your personal Mo Anam cara is an older person, although I have met with Mo Anam cara younger than myself. The Christian tradition of appointing a godparent is really the appointment of a Mo Anam cara for a child at the time of the baptismal rite.

While the rite of christening is done with water, the Mo Anam cara invites you to be Christed through fire. This is the fire in what Christians term the Holy Spirit. The Mo Anam cara invites the flame of Love to burn within your heart. For example in myth of Avalon, the wizard Merlin is King Arthur's Mo Anam cara.

Many people sentimentalize the concept of Mo Anam cara. They confuse it with a deep attachment to a romantic partner that is commonly called a 'soul mate'. This is not to say that there cannot be a romantic attachment that also leads to soul friendship, but that may be rare. If the Mo Anam cara is to run its full course the Anam cara will send you on your own way. They will cut ties to you so that you can journey to the Source alone. In the film ET, the Extra Terrestrial leaves the earthling family after sharing a Mo Anam cara experience with the children.

In movies such as Star Wars, Yoda is Luke Skywalker's Mo Anam cara. Gandalf is Frodo's Mo Anam cara in The Lord of the Rings. This meeting with a soul friend is well illustrated in the story "Return to Tir na Nog" as detailed in The Anamcara Experience - Ready to Radiate eCourse.

Your Mo Anam cara will appear often in a crisis and not before. You have to be a little humbled before you will open your heart and mind to the new. This is illustrated in the story of the student who goes to the Zen master and tells the master about all they know.

Your Mo Anam cara is a heart friend. Sometimes there will be a kind of recognition but you will not know where it comes from. I have had this experience only once. It was with a young Dutchman called Fredo who I met when traveling in India. We met only briefly but he is still a very fond remembrance. We each felt that we had known each other forever. There was a deep bond felt between us that was out of time.

Mo Anam cara translates as "my soul friend." It does not translate as my best friend or my soul mate. Most people confuse the two and then do not do the work that is required for the Mo Anam cara relationship to be birthed within them and between another.

The word 'soul' is the key word within this phrase Mo Anam cara. Your soul is not a thing. It is a way. It is your unique way of being in the world that was and is intended for you by Creation. This way of being in the world is not your way of doing. It is not your job or your career. It is what the Buddha meant when he said, "your work is to find your work and do it with all your heart."

Your Work (with a capital W) is a treasure unique to you. It is what the wonderful teacher Joseph Campbell refers to when he invites you to "follow your bliss."

What Joseph Campbell goes on to tell you about being a soul friend is that following your unique way is often anything but blissful. In fact, it sometimes appears and feels like all hell breaking loose. Sometimes this is only a minor crisis of confidence and other times it is a form of soul initiation.

You are being invited to become an initiate in the way that life wants to express uniquely through you. Of course, your family, community, your peer group, your religious affiliates and national group may all tell you that such direction indicates that you may be coming apart at the seams and that maybe you ought to reconsider this direction. Sometimes this is subtle, but it can be done as a threat.

Your Mo Anam cara is versed in the stages of growth in human form. They may not have experienced all these stages in their completeness but they have been graced the knowing of such stages. Each stage has its joys and challenges. The joys of one stage become the challenges of the next stage. The Mo Anam cara is there at these various junctures or crossroads or what in mythology is referred to as 'threshold places.'

The poet Christopher Logue wrote this in homage to Guillaume Apollinaire and it beautifully illustrates the work of your Mo Anam cara.

"Come to the edge," he said
"We are afraid," they said
"Come to the edge," he said
And they came to the edge.
And he pushed them
And they flew."

The Mo Anam cara is not interested in pushing you. They are not out to improve you. They are there to guide you and invite you. You are under no obligation to them and are under no obligation to take their advice.

It is their very presence that will invite you to go to the edge. What they are the knowing of and living of (which is their own unique way) you want to know. This is the invitation to fly into the timeless dimension that is true security and from which you can share a sense of the limitlessness of love.

The Mo Anam cara is a sort of midwife to the soul. The soul is a timeless birthing of the forever new. It is the birth of love in action. Like birth into physical form there is resistance and pain. Your Mo Anam cara assists you t breath into this new potential that longs to come through and live through you.

This is more than romantic. This is a Love that shares itself beyond the confines of two egos living as separate senses of themselves drawn together by a bond of love and friendship. Without the soul element you have not yet claimed your birthright of living in the Land of the Forever Young.

Do feel ready to claim your right to wear the circle of gold called the Mo Anam cara ring? This ring represents a commitment to yourself, to the forever creative within you. It is a commitment to wed your own heart's longing to express Love in action.

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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