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“The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often “make strange” with each other.”

Love Friendship Relationship Solitude Longing Intimacy Belonging Communion Divine Love Aloneness

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“The loving vision does not become entangled in the agenda of power, seduction, opposition, or complicity. Such loving is creative and subversive. It rises above the pathetic arithmetic of blame and judgement and engages experience at the level of origin, structure, and destiny.”

Love Creativity Destiny Power Judgement Subversion

Book:Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Source: Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“The human heart is a theater of longing.”

Love Nature Community Longing Belonging Communion Interdependence Celtic Spirituality Dependant Origination

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. ... It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance.”

Love Longing Oneness Communion Celtic Spirituality Spiritual Seeking

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence.”

Love Spirituality Longing Vulnerability Sensitivity Celtic Humanness Celtic Spirituality

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong