Contents
A friend awakens something within you
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. (John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
A friend calls you on your bullshit
The Buddhist tradition has a lovely concept of friendship, 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. (John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
To be a good friend to another, you must first be a friend to yourself
You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself. (John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
Friendship opens up new worlds within us
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. (Anaïs Nin)