Here are some quotes. My apologies, I had not been able to post them earlier. Since I have the book in Spanish, I'm sorry from my lack of translating skills into English –somehow being translated (to me), it does lose some of it's nice writing.
(Page number are from the book in spanish, but I guess around the number you will find it in the english version.)
“When you learn to love and allow yourself to be loved, you return to the home of your own spirit. You are sheltered and save. You reach the wholeness at the home of your yearnings and your roots. This growth and returning home is the unexpected benefit for the deed to love someone else. The first step is to pay attention to the other, a generous act by neglecting the own self. Paradoxically, this is the condition that allows us to grow” (p. 28)
“If you are generous to give, but skinflint to receive, you lost the equilibrium of your soul.” (p. 29)
“ The Celtic tradition posses a beautiful conception of love and friendship. One of the enthralling ideas is the love of the soul, that in ancient Gaelic is anam cara. “Anam” means “soul” in gaelic and “cara” is “friendship”. So that “anam cara” in celtic world is the “spiritual friend”. In early celtic church it was called anam cara to a teacher, companion or spiritual guide. At first it was a confessor, to whom one reveals the most intimate and hidden of their life. To an anam cara one can reveal the inner self, the mind and the heart. This friendship was an act of acknowledgment and ingrain. When one had an anam cara, that friendship transcended the conventions, the moral and the categories. One was united as an ancient and eternal form with the spiritual friend. This celtic conception did not imposed to the soul restrictions neither in space nor time. The soul does not know of jails. It is a divine light that penetrates in yourself and in your other. This nexus awaken and fomented profound and special camaraderie.
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In life everyone needs to have an anam cara, an spiritual friend. In this love you are comprehended by how you are, without masks and unpretentious. Love allows comprehension to be born, and this is an invaluable treasure. There, where you are comprehended, is your home.” (p. 34)
“The soul is the most intimate of a person. You know it before you know your body. When the soul and body are one, you penetrate in the world of the other. If one could reciprocate in a tender and reverent manner to the deepness and beautiful of this encounter, one would overextend up to the unutterable the possibilities of joy and ecstasy from the act of love. This would liberate upon both the interior spring of the profound love. Would been outwardly reunited with the third force of light, the ancient circle, the primer that unite the two souls.” (p. 47)
“The body is the mirror where expresses the secret world of the soul. Is the sacred threshold that needs to be respected, to be looked after and to be comprehended in its spiritual dimension.” (p. 62)
“The body also is veracious. You know your own life rarely lies. Your mind could deceive you and raise barriers between you and your nature; but your body does not lie. If you hear, it would tell you how your life is, if you live it from your soul or from your negativism.” (p. 62)
“The longing is the most beautiful that is within us; it is spiritual, possess deepness and wisdom. If you focus it to a remote divinity, you unjustifiably submit to tension. So, it happened that the longing search for the divine, but the immoderation of tension oblige it to fall back in form of cynicism, emptiness o negativism. That way a beautiful life can be destroy. But is not necessarily submit it to any tension, if we believe that the body is in the soul and it is in a sacred place, the presence of the divine is here, close to us.” (p.71)
“In regard to the eye that loves, everything is real. This art of love is not romantic neither naïve. This love is the main criterion of truth, celebration and reality. According to Kathleen Raine, a Scottish poetess, what you don't see with light of love, you don't see it at all. Love is light in which we see the light, that one in which we see each thing in its legitimate origin, nature and destiny. If we could contemplate the world with love, this would present itself to us plethoric of incitements, possibilities, deepness.
The eye that loves can seduce the pain and violence unto the transfiguration and renovation. It shines because is autonomous and free. It contemplates everything with tenderness. It does not relinquish by power aspirations, seduction, position nor complicity. It is a creative and subversive vision. It rises above the pathetic arithmetic of guilt and judgment and, learn the experience to the plane of its origin, structure and destiny. The eye that loves sees beyond the image and incites the most profound changes. Vision performs a central function in your presence and creativity. Recognize how you see things can get you to self knowledge and allows you to catch a sight of the wonderful treasures that are hidden by life.” (p. 76)
“The ear sense allows us to hear the creation. One of the greatest thresholds of reality is the one that is in between sound and silence. All good sounds have silence in their proximity, before and after them. The first sound that the human being hears is the heart of the mother in the profound waters of her womb. That's why since aforetime we are in harmony with the drum as musical instrument. It sound calm us because evoke us to the time in which we beat up unison with the heart of our mother. It was a season in total communion. There was not any separation; our unity with another was complete. P. J. Curtis, the great Scottish scholar of rhythm and blues use to say that in looking out for the meaning of things, in reality we are looking for the lost chord. When humanity finds it, it will eliminate the discord of the world and the symphony of the universe will enter in harmony within itself.” (p. 81)
