“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by
an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. This
metaphor of friendship can be grounded in the clay nature of the human body.
When you find the person you love, an act of ancient recognition brings you
together. It is as if millions of years before the silence of nature broke,
your lover’s clay and your clay lay side by side. Then in the turning of the
seasons, your one clay divided and separated. You began to rise as distinct
clay forms, each housing a different individuality and destiny. Without even
knowing it, your secret memory mourned your loss of each other.
While your clay
selves wandered for thousands of years through the universe, your longing for
each other never faded. This metaphor helps to explain how in the moment of
friendship two souls suddenly recognize each other. It could be a meeting on
the street, or at a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction,
then suddenly there is the flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow.
There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing. Love opens the
door of ancient recognition. You enter. You come home to each other at last. As
Euripides said, “Two friends, one soul.”
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