Natura Complementary Therapies

Happy International Women's Day ♥

art | Catrin Welz-Stein

The kindest people are not born that way, they are made.
They are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson.

The kindest people don’t just exist - they choose to soften where circumstance has tried to harden them,
they choose to believe in goodness because they have seen first-hand why compassion is so necessary.

They have seen first-hand why tenderness is so important in this world.

~ Bianca Sparacino

art | Camille Pissarro

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
– Plato

art | Pandora Young (Hypatia)

It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality.

For the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective [psychosis] and save at least his own soul. Who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man [or woman] who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.

~Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition
art | Jo Jayson

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.

The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.
—John O'Donohue
Excerpt from Anam Cara

art | Mystical Conversation, Odilon Redon, 1896
from" The Sacred Feminine For Life.

Self-love is not just about constantly giving yourself praise and telling yourself how awesome you are.
It’s about loving the real you, the human you—the person who has feet of clay, who comes undone under criticism, who sometimes fails and disappoints others.
It’s about making a commitment to yourself that you will stick by yourself—even if no one else does!
That’s what I mean when I say you must love yourself as though your life depends on it, because quite simply, I know without a doubt that it does!

~Anita Moorjani

art | Catrin Welz-Stein

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💝 Happy holidays to you all 💝

Kamila