Moving, beautiful, philosophical, inspirational, with a reverence for the world, and the stories of each of those who inhabit our world.Īnam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom is truly a work of art. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.” Quite a bit of territory is covered in this book, and while there is a sense of spirituality to this, it is not a specific “church” sense. I wish this had been available in an audio format, for it made the experience even more lovely, but this was lovely, nevertheless. This past Autumn, I listened to John O’Donohue’s “Beauty: The Invisible Embrace”, which I loved, especially as he is the narrator. ”Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process.” When love awakens in your life is like a rebirth, a new beginning.” Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy where before there was fear, now there is courage where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. ”When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Nature nourished them it was here that they felt their deepest belonging and affinity.” ”Since the Celts were a nature people, the world of nature was both a presence and a companion. Thoughts on Celtic spirituality flow throughout these pages. O’Donohue speaks on many things in a reverential way – the colours, the power of nature. His feelings about social justice can be clearly felt in this book of Celtic wisdom. In 2000, after writing and publishing this, Anam Ċara, and Eternal Echoes: Exploring our Hunger to Belong, O’Donohue retired from his priestly ministry and devoted himself to social justice. While John O’Donohue was a religious man, a poet, a philosopher, a priest, this religious thought shows itself more in the reverence for the world, a belief in the ancient wisdoms ability to offer greatly needed sustenance to those experiencing a hunger in a spiritual sense.
”Since the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process, love is the continuous birth of creativity within and between us.” A joining that is ancient and eternal, a place where you belonged. John O’Donohue doesn’t view the word ‘friend’ as casually as one might use it, and certainly not in this combination. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul Ċara is the word for friend. ”The Celtic understanding of friendship finds its inspiration and culmination in the sublime notion of the Anam Ċara.
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