Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition

There is nothing as near as the eternal.

It is an incredible image of release which is arrested. Very often in difficult work projects there is a secret shape waiting to emerge. If you concentrate on releasing the hidden possibility within your

each other because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.

Light is the secret presence of the divine. It keeps life awake. Light is a nurturing presence which calls forth warmth and colour in nature.

The Celtic mind had a wonderful respect for the mystery of the circle and the spiral. The circle is one of the oldest and most powerful symbols. The world is a circle; the sun and moon are too.

The Celtic eye has a great sense of that interim world between the invisible and the visible.

Rilke said: ‘Being here is so much.’ It is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here.

another. It is interesting that the word revelation comes from re-valere, literally, to veil again. The world of the soul is glimpsed through the opening in a veil which closes again.

A person should always offer a prayer of graciousness for the love that has awakened in them.