Friendship — true friendship — is a recognition on the soul level,

beyond any form of human perspective or judgment,

which allows us to meet each other without armor.

In such openness, friends become antennas sensing each other’s light and shadow.

And naturally, they encourage one another in the unfolding of their most luminous

talents — those for which their soul has come here, that make their eyes sparkle,

and with which each, in their own unique way, makes the world more flourishing.

And friends help each other to let go of what has become too heavy.

They discover together that humor is far less exhausting than drama,

and that those who inflict pain are always in pain themselves.

Thus, a friend becomes a catalyst for learning to truly see ourselves —

our real self, that magnificent being of love,

that we so often sabotage out of fear or woundedness.

And when we go inward and dive into that light within us,

we touch an undercurrent of joy — a joy that embraces life without any conditions,

and remains untouched by all the scenarios that come and go on the surface.

A joy that unites everything, and from which everything has begun.

In this way, friendship can inspire us on the most challenging journey of our lives:

the journey from head to heart —

because the only meaningful thing we will leave behind is the trail of love we’ve left in our wake.