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Paul Simon - Mo Anam cara – My Soul Friend
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- where my thoughts escape me Homeward Bound by Paul Simon
There are songs that have a heart resonance for the individual concerned. There are songs that accompany them on their journey through life. There are songs that might pop into their heads and bring memories of when they were truly alive even if during that time there was emotional upheaval.
Heart song is an integral part of learning to be a friend of one's soul. This does not mean you have to be a singer but everyone can sing. It is only that you have learned to mistrust the sound of your own voice.
One outstanding singer/songwriter whose songs I love to listen to is Paul Simon. He has journeyed with me all through my teenage years, young adulthood and beyond. It was his songs that invited this Irish storyteller to leave Ireland and go exploring beyond my homeland.
Let this storyteller take you into what he considers the in depth meaning of the song entitled Homeward Bound. Let me say at the outset that this is the writer's interpretation of this song and he does not assert that this was the original meaning intended by the songwriter.
The song begins:
This is the song of the solo man. It is also the song of a wise man. It is in a way a modern Song of Solomon (Solo man, again) who was also the wisest of men, a man featured in the Bible and wonder tales.
The beautiful song begins with the combination of the two most powerful words in the English language - I AM. The songwriter uses the contraction I'm. This poet, this solo man (as all poets are) is waiting at a railway station. There is a play on words here. For the spiritual journey (and this song, for me, is surely about a spiritual journey) is the real way. Sometimes we arrive on a platform that means we have integrated life's lessons.
We have become initiates into the true self. We have learned the lesson of waiting, which is a different sort of waiting than that normally understood as a reaction to impatience. This is a waiting without waiting. At this station this waiting is rest for the journey to higher and higher stations of consciousness.
This poet and one-man band has a ticket in his hand. This is not just any ticket. It is the ticket into wonder. It is the ticket you are given when you have done the heart work. It is the ticket given to all those who are initiates. They invite the heart to open and journey on the real way that is inwardand metaphorically speaking upward.
This poet journeys into fleeting experiences. He is not carrying that much baggage on his journey. He is carrying only what is essential and that includes his instrument, a guitar. With this and his voice he sings heart songs while strumming and plucking at the heartstrings of his guitar. These fleeting experiences do not last longer than one night. They do not last longer than the turn of one cycle called a day. They might last the cycle of one lifetime but they would still end.
This solo man
with his guitar wants more. He is waiting to come home. He is filled with
the longing to come home. This is the longing of a spiritual journeyman
seeking to come home to the Beloved. This is the longing of the soul for
union with the Divine. This modern day hymn of praise continues:
This could be the song of a mystic. Three times the solo man sings the word 'home.' Such is their heart's longing to return. This chorus intimates where this longing is to be found.
It is found beyond the cascade of thoughts and the life of 'little me.' It is found within the music that is playing through your heart connection to the Universal Song. It is found in the patient waiting and surrender to the light of Love. Most of all it is found in that which only mystics and the solo man (this also includes solo woman) find value. It is found in that which the true individual treasures most - silence.
This silence is the communication device with the Beloved par excellence. It is the communication device that is always empty and therefore full. This is wisdom. It cannot be intellectually understood but has to be lived if only for an instant. In this instant you can come home.
In this instant, if you pay fidelity to the grace given, then you will travel far and still long for home until you realize that home is exactly where you are and always have been. When this happens you journey onward to the station of Love for the highest good of all. You play the music and shine the love light that simply waits for you without waiting within the timeless, placeless place of Love.
When you are the knowing of this sound of silence then the blessing is here and you are it. Practice: Take your journal and write about a song that talks to your heart. This can be one line. It can be a chorus or an entire song. What invitation is the song issuing? What state does this song invite within you? From
Twelve Modern Songs for the Journey Home © Tony Cuckson 2009 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. To learn more about this radiant diamond within and how to awaken your beauty from its sleep of many years you are invited to subscribe to our FREE weekly Newsletter entitled The Anamcara Experience This Newsletter includes articles which invite all the experiences listed above. These articles include spiritual stories, articles about songs - modern and old, articles about the power of spiritual poetry and many other aspects of spiritual development and much more. As a thank you for being willing to accept this invitation you will receive a short but powerful FREE REPORT entitled "7 Ways to a Wonderful Life." Simply subscribe now without obligation and begin today the journey into a wonderful life of an Anam Cara - soul friend
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