Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition

Consequently, love is anything but sentimental. In fact, it is the most real and creative form of human presence. Love is the threshold where divine and human presence ebb and flow into each other.

The fast-food metaphor provides a deep clue to the poverty of sensibility and lack of taste in modern culture.

If you plant two trees side by side, they will smother each other. That which grows needs space. Kahlil Gibran says: ‘But let there be spaces in your togetherness, let the winds of the heavens dance between you.’

There is nothing as near as the eternal.

It is an incredible privilege to be with someone who is making this journey into the eternal world. When you are present at the sacrament of someone’s death, you should be very mindful of their situation. In other words, you should not concentrate so much on your own grief. You should rather strive to be fully present to, with and for the person wh

This art of belonging awakened and fostered a deep and special companionship.

It is probably some splinter in the mind which is the sore root of so much of our exile. This tension between clay and mind is the source of all creativity. It is the tension in us between the ancient and the new, the known and the unknown. Only the imagination is native to this rhythm. It alone can navigate in the sublime interim where the lineame

The surfaces of our minds continue to be seduced by the power of images. There is a sinister eviction taking place; people’s lives are being dragged outwards all the time. The inner world of the soul is suffering a great eviction from the landlord forces of advertising and external social reality.

Caitlín Matthews, The Little Book of Celtic Blessings, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1994.

CELTIC SPIRITUALITY HAS A GREAT SENSE OF the significance of each day, how the new day is sacred.