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It
is this writers hope that your soul be enchanted. Enchantment is a
state of connection to the heart. Each and every Soul Friend who is
featured here is an invitation to enchantment.
When
you see ment at the end of a word it indicates that the word
implies action. Each and every radiant being featured on Radiant
Soul Friends is inviting you to chant. The chant
you are being invited into is your unique sound. This is your unique
heart song that is intended to flow through you.
An
Anam Cara will invite you into a feeling connection to your unique
sound. They know that there is within you a longing. This
longing is to express creatively in the way that only you can be and
do. This longing is beautifully expressed by the mystic poet
Jelaluddin
Rumi (1207-1273) in the invitation entitled Songbird translated by Coleman
Barks.
Songbird
Birdsong
brings relief to my longing
I
am
just as ecstatic as they are,
but
with
nothing to say!
Please,
universal soul, practice
some
song, or something,
through
me.
Each
and every Soul Friend listed here is inviting you to the awareness of the Universal
Soul
that created you in order that it can experience the joy of Love in
Action. Every one of these Soul Friends is such a unique
invitation.
Everyone
of them will tell you a secret. It is the same secret but it
expresses in countless ways. Jesus expresses it differently from
Buddha. Each wave on the ocean of time moves in a very different way on
the ocean of the Timeless. None is better than the other but each is
unique, just as you are.
Each
and everyone of these Soul Friends will tell you one thing. YOU are
not different from them. They do not put themselves on a pedestal and say,
"Look at me." They invite you to look into the mirror of
your heart. Their work is the work of inviting you to clear the dust
from the mirror and see your radiant reflection.
They
are not out to improve you. They know all you need is to clear the
dust from the mirror. Then, when you look in the mirror and ask, "Mirror
on the wall who is the fairest of them all?" you will
laugh at the idea that you can be compared to anyone else. All the
people on this site who are invitations to radiance know the answer to
this question in their unique Universal Song way.
Each
and every Anam cara (Anam cara meaning Soul Friend) invites you to look
into the mirror of your heart. Until you accept this invitation you
keep yourself out of the awareness of the beauty that is at the heart of
who you are. You miss the invisible embrace that will mind you
all your days.
This
site invites The Anam cara Experience.
This invitation has been issued, and is being issued, by all of the
beautiful radiances and resonance's who have been willing to have the
Universal Soul sing her unique song through them. This doesn't mean that they
become singers, poets, artists, storytellers. It means that if you
are a lawyer, a mother (the greatest of invitations) a father (an equally
great invitation) a car mechanic, a cashier at a supermarket you are
invited to radiate the beauty inherent in that task.
The
invitations here are saying, "Be the
expression of grace in this world of form you have come here to
be." One of the greatest teachers this world has
ever known gives you this invitation
Let
your light so shine
before
men that they
will glorify God.
This
comes at the end of one of the worlds greatest teachings called "The
Sermon on the Mount.. It is like other teachings such as the Heart
Sutra and the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. These are cultural and time
based, but like great all soul connectedness, express that which is beyond
time and space. We in Ireland refer to this feeling connection with
the Timeless as the Land of Tir Na Nog
- the Land of the Forever Young.
On
this site there are many pictures. Pictures paint a thousand words
and more. They are invitations beyond the intellect. The
intellect is where sleeping beauty is imprisoned until someone comes to
kiss her awake to the knowing intelligence of the heart. Only one
versed in such intelligence can enter the tower. Each and
everyone of the radiant being featured here invite you to the hero'
journey that takes you into your unique awakening.
All
of the radiant individuals here will tell you that they, as expressions of
the Divine in form, are purely inviting you into the awakening of
beauty. All the storytellers, all the artists, all the
singer/songwriters and all the mystics are inviting you into the one
secret that each of them are expressing in a unique way as the flow of the
Universal Song through them.
This
Soul Friend is graced this website from the efforts of many people.
There are too many to name here. This website is an
invitation. This was one of the most beautiful words that the human
heart can express when in connection to the Divine.
I
know of few people who expressed such invitation better than one of
Irelands greatest souls. This is the poet and writer John O'Donohue.
I never met this soul but visitors to this site might notice that the word
invitation is the most popular of words for this writer. This word is the
gift given to this writer from the readings of Irelands Anam cara.
This
site is about the Anam cara invitation. No one, to this writers
mind, has ever issued such an invitation more graciously and expansively
than John O'Donohue. He begins this list of Soul Friends. He
is a great Soul Friend of this writer along with so many others.
This
site is about communion.
It
is about holy communion. This is what John O'Donohue recognized was
being lost to the culture of the sound bite. Ireland has lost many of her
most beautiful sons of late. There has been John O'Donohue,
John Moriarty and John McGahern. Not only this, but her politicians have authorized
that Tara the mythical and ancient spiritual centre and her magical
connection to the Timeless be destroyed to make way for a motorway.
Let
this site, and your commitment to it, go some way to be the
invitation that John O'Donohue wanted to protect. This is the
invitation to Soul Friendship that can then manifest as Love in Action.
John O'Donohue studied mystics.
To
accept this invitation is to align yourself with purpose, passion and
prosperity. This is aligning yourself with real abundance.
This is were you simply pour yourself away in Love because that is all you
recognize as being who you are. John O'Donohue was one of Irelands
great writers and poets. He will bless me for finishing this web
page with a poem
by another poet. He will smile to think that he could be invited to the same
banquet that fed the universal beauty of the mystic poet Hafiz.
I know the way you can get
When
you have not had a drink of Love:
Your
face hardens,
Your
sweet muscles cramp.
Children
become concerned
About
a strange look that appears in your eyes
Which
even begins to worry your own mirror
And
nose.
Squirrels
and birds sense your sadness
And
call an important conference in a tall tree.
They
decide which secret code to chant
To
help your mind and soul.
Even
angels fear that brand of madness
That
arrays itself against the world
And
throws sharp stones and spears into
The
innocent and into ones self.
O
I know the way you can get
If
you have not been drinking Love:
You
might rip apart
Every
sentence your friends and teachers say,
Looking
for hidden clauses.
You
might weigh every word on a scale
Like
a dead fish.
You
might pull out a ruler to measure
From
every angle in your darkness
The
beautiful dimensions of a heart you once
Trusted.
I
know the way you can get
If
you have not had a drink from Loves
Hands.
That
is why all the Great Ones speak of
The
vital need
To
keep remembering God,
So
you will come to know and see Him
As
being so Playful
And
Wanting,
Just
Wanting to help.
That
is why Hafiz says:
Bring
your cup near me.
For
all I care about
Is
quenching your thirst for freedom!
All
a Sane man can ever care about
Is
giving Love!
From: I
Heard God Laughing:
Renderings
of Hafiz: by Daniel Ladinsky.
Each
of these radiant Soul Friends is inviting you to hear the God and the good
that is always laughing within you. Laughter is a very unique
expression in the world of form. It is only available to humans. It
is what happens when you wake up to the Anam cara Experience. This
is the feeling experience of knowing you are so much more than the
insanity you see manifesting in so many fear filled ways in this world.
The
Anam cara invites you beyond wondedness to sanity. As the beautiful
soul radiance of Hafiz invites, "All a
sane man can ever care about is giving Love."
Off course "man" in this context means
"hu-man." The "hu" in human means, "The
sound of God." Thus, the translation of the word
"hu-man" means, universal sound that sings through the form
called humanity.
Let
each and everyone of these Soul Friends invite you into what you already
know but have merely forgotten. These teachers are not asking you to
improve yourself but to know your Self. When this is your heart felt
knowing you become the free flow of Love in Action. You experience friendship with
your soul. This is the bridge that takes you between what we in
Ireland refer to as the two worlds. The world of time and world of
eternity.
An
Anam cara invites you into Hero' journey. This is the only journey
that you need to take. Each and everyone of the Soul Friends
featured here have taken this endless journey into Love. They have claimed the treasure
that is unique to them. They are not inviting you to claim the same
treasure. They know your treasure is what God (or whatever name you
care to use) gave to you when you entered this world of time and space.
When
you find it there is nothing you can do other than give it away. The
paradox is that the more you give this unique treasure away without
conditions the more it returns to you. Come
and join us on the journey into the highest good for all.
With Blessings
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