In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.
The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara.
Wild Goose has partnered with John O'Donohue's Literary Estate to develop an exclusive range of pieces inspired by his writing.
From an original carving by Adam Grabski, this has a carefully polished pure bronze finish with a ceramic resin cold cast core and comes in a warm grey frame, which measures: 8.5 x 11.5 inches (21.5 x 29cm).
