To All Neopoets ~ Anam Cara

In the spirit of light and love, we are here in one another's
presence to enable the spaces of our shadow-selves to be enlightened
by one another's presence. We do this in many many ways. One of
which is to show one another the spaces in our hearts where light
has not yet reached. In the spirit of love and friendship. 



"The Buddhist tradition has a lovely concept of friendship. This is
the notion of the 'Kalyana-mitra', the 'noble friend'. Your Kalyana-
mitra, your noble friend, will not accept pretension, but will
gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. No-one
can see their life totally. As there is a blind spot in the retina
of the human eye, there is also in the soul a blind side where you
are not able to see. Therefore, you must depend on the one you love
to see for you, where you cannot see for yourself. Your Kalyana-
mitra complements your vision in a kind and critical way. Such
friendship is creative and critical, it is willing to negotiate
awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness."

John O'Donohue "Anam cara".

Love and Light,
Anna