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anam cara
November 2009 
ANAM CARA - JOHN O'DONOHUE
Posted on Oct 24th, 2009
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Taikunping
Taikunping
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In your clay body things are coming to expression and to light that were never known before, presences that never came to light or shape in any other individual.
To paraphrase Heidegger, man is a shepherd of being, we could say: man is a shepherd of clay. You represent an unknown world that begs you to bring it to voice.
Often the joy you feel does not belong to your individual biography but to the clay out of which you are formed. At other times, you will find sorrow moving through you, like a dark mist over a landscape. This sorrow is dark enough to paralyse you. It is a mistake to interfere with this movement of feeling.
It is more appropriate to recognize that this emotion belongs more to your clay than to your mind. It is wise to let this weather of feeling pass; it is on its way elsewhere.
We so easily forget that our clay has a memory which preceded our minds, a life of its own before it took our present form. Regardless of how modern we seem, we still remain ancient, sisters and brothers of the one clay.
In each of us a different part of the mystery becomes luminous. To truly be and become your self, you need the ancient radiance of others...
In your clay body things are coming to expression and to light that were never known before, presences that never came to light or shape in any other individual.
To paraphrase Heidegger, man is a shepherd of being, we could say: man is a shepherd of clay. You represent an unknown world that begs you to bring it to voice.
Often the joy you feel does not belong to your individual biography but to the clay out of which you are formed. At other times, you will find sorrow moving through you, like a dark mist over a landscape. This sorrow is dark enough to paralyse you. It is a mistake to interfere with this movement of feeling.
It is more appropriate to recognize that this emotion belongs more to your clay than to your mind. It is wise to let this weather of feeling pass; it is on its way elsewhere.
We so easily forget that our clay has a memory which preceded our minds, a life of its own before it took our present form. Regardless of how modern we seem, we still remain ancient, sisters and brothers of the one clay.
In each of us a different part of the mystery becomes luminous. To truly be and become your self, you need the ancient radiance of others...
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It was so good to read this today. Thank you for posting. The clay of ourselves that has a memory…our ancient connection to the earth, the soil, our ancestors.
I love this book and how it has been written, I like to read about different ways of viewing life and our “beingness”!!
The earth has always been so important to me and now the earth energies/goddess/dakini wisdom are becoming more present in society as a whole - we are all seeking that inner balance and wholeness and integrating heaven and earth into one divine truth
Thank you for posting this Tai. Excellent food for thought and food for the soul.
thanks for coming over Kala - loads of love coming your way>>>>
Life such a gift to know someone you never met while dancing with those who sing different songs from silently recalled words never spoken.
J.M.
Thank you for your gift of words and silence
gifts breaking ice bonds
song of life danced into dreams
silence sits inside
Wonderful post - especially the words, “weather of feeling” - I love it so much when certain ideas get merged into one another - and the book which I have never heard of, I shall soon look up - thank you!
If you read the Anam Cara I hope with all my heart that you enjoy it as much as I have, I've read it several times now and each journey through the words and emotions seems to sing deeper into my soul …
Love and blessings winterfruit
I just wanted to find out from you the same thing told in the first two sentences immediately found the excellent picture.
“In your clay body things are coming to expression and to light that were never known before, presences that never came to light or shape in any other individual.”
Maybe as we “meet” and make connections with one another a new clay body is being continually build and coming into form. We maybe constantly birthing from our interactions with the universe a new way of being and interacting on deeper levels than ever before.
Many blesings Tai
Lovely. I definitely need the ancient radiance of others. and I love the metaphor (though I think it probably isn't really a metaphor) of the clay body as a kind of ground of being we all share.
where did you get this image?
Hi Laura - the woodland is about 10minutes walk, or 5 minutes on my bike - Picasa 3 gave me a helping hand to create the photo!
In gratitude for the unique radiance of each being on earth
Blessings
Tai
That's a gorgeous photo. I thought it was yours, most likely. Mystical and delicate.
Thanks Laura!
In appreciation
Tai