Article Highlights:

• What is a Divine Friendship?
• Do you have any Divine Friends?
• How to discover your Divine Friends

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Dear Potential Divine Friend,

There are friendships that grow through a succession of lifetimes, not just in this one.  Such a friendship has an unusual opportunity to become a Divine Friendship, a type of friendship that the Indian guru, Yogananda, often spoke about: 

“Make every effort to rediscover your friends of past incarnations, whom you may recognize through familiar physical, mental, and spiritual qualities. Try to resume such friendships, begun in a preceding incarnation, and perfect them into divine friendship.”

He speaks of friendships that continue through lifetimes in this way,

“Many, many people that I have met in this country, and in India and elsewhere, I have known before. The friendship is even stronger now. It was not finished in past lives, and continues to evolve in this life. Friendship is the highest form of love. As such, it is meant to evolve into the divine manifestation of God’s eternal love.” (more…)

Article Highlights:

• Just friends
• Sex friends
• Divine friends

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Dear reader/thinker friend,

After choosing the topic for this article, I was curious and googled “types of friends.” There were many opinions of course.  I was thinking about basic categories but most listed qualities of friends rather than types of friends.

For instance, one list included Fair weather friend, Fake friend, Fickle friend and For-now friend. Another listed: best friend, listener, the fun one, the loyal coworker, the wise one, crazy one, honest one, long-term one, gossipy one. I came across a list that added: fierce friend, family friend, work friend, the friend you admire.  And I found Aristotle’s rather short list of 3 types of friendships: friendships of pleasure, utility and of virtue. (more…)

Article Highlights:

• The Greek word for love between friends
• What is a friend?… your answer
• What is a friend?… my answer
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Some of you have been following my weekly article for many years and may vaguely recall a series I did in 2015 called Really Big Love and How to Have It. It was a 9 part series, the first several of which discussed and explored aspects of love, using some of the different words for love as understood in Grecian times.

Among the Greek words for love were Eros: romantic, passionate love; Lucus: playful, flirtatious love; Storge: unconditional, familial love; Philautia: self-love; Agape: Universal Love. 

One that I did not cover in that series was the love called Philia: intimate, authentic friendship.  This is friendship of a duration and type that has developed intimate familiarity – but without sexual intimacy.  It has deepened with time, challenge and attention into real abiding love.  

Relationships with this quality of Philia love offer the level of companionship, commitment, communication and mutual benefit found between life partners, without developing exclusivity or sexual exchange. (more…)