MsTiara’s Thoughts

As life goes on its merry and hectic way we get lost in the noise and clutter. Who we are, what we are, how we feel and how the other people around us feel.

It is all noise. The sky is always shaded by the color of your thoughts at that moment in time. The wind does not touch your skin anymore where you can feel it resonate through your soul.

But, every now and then you are with a person for a moment that you can find that intense internal quietness.

Where you can just be.

In that moment.

You can feel the sunshine sink into your soul and heal as it penetrates to the heart.

You can feel the wind caress you as a lovers hand as your only focus is on that touch rather then anything else in the world.

As all the food and kisses that touch your lips taste of passion and peace.

And the smell of the world is centered on life, love, living, being.

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul love; “Anam Cara” may sound like some new French perfume, but it actually refers to the Celtic spiritual belief of souls connecting and bonding .

In Celtic Spiritual tradition, it is believed that the soul radiates all about the physical body what some refer to as an aura. When you connect with another person and become completely open and trusting with that individual, your two souls begin to flow together.

Should such a deep bond be formed, it is said you have found your “Anam Cara” or soul friend.

Your “Anam Cara” always accepts you as you truly are, holding you in beauty and light. In order to appreciate this relationship, you must first recognize your own inner light and beauty. This is not always easy to do. The Celts believed that forming an “Anam Cara” friendship would help you to awaken your awareness of your own nature and experience the joys of others.

The “Anam Cara” was originally someone to whom you confessed, revealing the hidden intimacies of your life. With the “Anam Cara”, you could share your innermost self, your mind and your heart. This friendship was an act of recognition and belonging. When you had an “Anam Cara”, your friendship cut across all convention, morality and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way with the “friend of your soul”. The Celtic understanding did not set limitations of space or time on the soul. There is no cage for the soul. The soul is a divine light that flows into you and into your Other.

This art of belonging awakened and fostered a deep and special companionship. When you love, you open your life to an Other. All your barriers are down. Your protective distances collapse. This person is given absolute permission to come into the deepest temple of your spirit. Your presence and life can become their ground. It takes great courage to let someone so close. Where a friendship recognizes itself as a gift, it will remain open to its own ground of blessing….. When you are blessed with an “Anam Cara”, the Irish believe, you have arrived at that most sacred place: home. This bond between friends is indissoluble: “This, I say, is what is broken by no chances, what no interval of time or space can sever or destroy, and what even death itself cannot part”. (from “Anam Cara…Wisdom from the Celtic World”, by John O’Donohue)

Breathe, settle into my skin, walk away from the past and the ties it has on my soul and my cells. Rediscover me and my soul away from the trauma of the world.

When you stop and do that, it is so easy to get confused. Because when you lift yourself away from the world you forget about the boundaries that humanity applies to you.

I am no longer hungry, the hate of humans does not touch me, I can see the patterns of the world and it is a mess of our own making. Life is about pleasure and hope and joy and light. You can fly and soar and the music of life sings through your soul till you hum and vibrate and resonate.

You are perfect and as beautiful as the tree who lifts its leaves to touch the sky and provide a home to the birds who sing their joy to all who will listen.