{"id":714,"date":"2015-01-12T08:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=714"},"modified":"2015-01-12T19:13:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:13:31","slug":"friendship-illuminates-our-wholeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2015\/01\/friendship-illuminates-our-wholeness.html","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Illuminates Our Wholeness, Supports and Empowers our Hearts in Celebration of All We Are…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10885082_900477003326314_2200676249171424367_n\"<\/a>Friendship is where we learn how to trust ourselves with another person, where we share all of ourselves, and in the beauty of our friend\u00a0relationships we learn how to live out our fullest potential.<\/p>\n

I hold friendship in the highest regard.\u00a0 Every day, every hour, I witness great and powerful acts of friendship and love. \u00a0It is an honor to place my self in the seat of relationship with the many miraculous people I am privileged to know and love.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen perfect friendship exists either between two hearts or within a group of hearts in a spiritual relationship, such friendship perfects each individual. The heart purified by friendship provides an open door to unity. Through it you invite other souls to enter the temple of brotherhood – those who love you, and even those who love you not…”<\/i><\/p>\n

We all have our ways of being in the world moving through what we need to in each of our lifetimes.\u00a0 Having friends makes everything easier.\u00a0 Thanks\u00a0to all those I am lucky enough to call friend.<\/p>\n

IN whatever language you want to play back the essence of the soul, the same evocative feeling pours forth from source, one of Flight of the Soul’s inspirations, German born Rudolph Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul<\/a> in an Italian translation I find amusing and contented and inspired…<\/address>\n
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parlano dello stesso fatto<\/address>\n
l’amicizia divina<\/address>\n
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cio che<\/address>\n
vogliamo condurre<\/address>\n
diretto ad una chiara e certa meta<\/address>\n
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English Translation<\/em><\/address>\n
speak of the same fact<\/address>\n
the divine friendship<\/address>\n
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what you<\/address>\n
want to conduct<\/address>\n
directed to a clear and firm goal<\/address>\n
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One of my early teachers, a Monk from the tradition of Self Realization Fellowship….<\/em><\/address>\n

If we know anybody in our lives who really love us enough to want to help us, to tell us the hard things, they are our greatest friends. Because happy talk only goes so far, because our soul knows \u2013 I\u2019ve got blind spots. I\u2019m in denial. I have addictions. I\u2019m really upside down on many things.\u00a0\u00a0 If somebody, in a loving enough way, can slip me that little message to even help me on that road, and let me know they\u2019re going to love me before, during and after the process. That is the highest degree of friendship<\/em>.\u00a0 – – Craig Marshall from the documentary Secrets of Love<\/a><\/p>\n

However your life is in its present time. \u00a0Get on the Friendship Train with the Fabulous Gladys Night and the Pips and make today a day that you celebrate your brothers in all their ups and downs and ways of being in your life. \u00a0Cherish them as we take these important steps as a world together into more and more love as way of being…<\/p>\n