Quotes of: Celtic-music Keyword

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian traditi...

Exploring Celtic Spirituality

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

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way

It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two peop...

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom