Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition

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.

Anam is the Gaelic word for soul; ċara means soul cara is the word for friend. So anam ċara friend. The anam ċara was a person to whom you could reveal the hidden intimacies of your life. This friendship was an act of recognition and belonging. When you had an anam ċara, your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an

firstly, there was the underworld of nature below the surface of landscape.

Experts tell us that smell is the most faithful of all the senses in terms of memory. The smells of one’s childhood still remain within. It is incredible how a simple scent on a street or in a room can bring you back years to an experience you had long forgotten.

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.

We do not need to go out to find love, rather we need to be still and let love discover us.

I am in everything and everything is in me.

To remain faithful to your life requires commitment and vision that must be constantly renewed.

When we are ready, we will be blessed. At that moment the door of the heart becomes the gate of heaven.