Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition

Rather, we need to practise a new art of attention to the inner rhythm of our days and lives. This attention brings a new awareness of our own human and divine presence.

When you sow things in the spring, you commit them to the darkness of the soil. The soil does its own work. It is destructive to interfere with the rhythm and wisdom of its darkness.

If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings.

In other words, we never meet anything totally or purely. We see everything through the lens of thought. The way that you think determines what you will actually discover.

We are seldom in the place where we stand and in the time that is now. Many people are haunted by the past, things that they have not done, things that they should have done that they regret not doing. They are prisoners of their past. Other people are haunted by the future; they are anxious and worried about what is coming.

As soon as I let go of the desire to sleep, sleep came naturally.

One way to invigorate and renew your language is to expose your self to poetry. In poetry your language will find cleansing illumination and sensuous renewal.

Gaelic is such a poetic and powerful language, it carries the Irish memory. When you steal a people’s language, you leave their soul bewildered.

Sometimes we allow people to exercise destructive power over us simply because we never question them. When falsity masquerades as power, there is no force that can unmask it as swiftly as a question.