Welcome to SilentJourney.org

Welcome to the Companions for the Silent Journey website. Our goal is to promote the exchange and sharing of spiritual wisdom gleaned through the Christian contemplative perspective. We encourage you to enter into this “spiritual space,” join the conversation and find and foster companions on the spiritual journey.

It has been our experience that spiritual friendship can be nourished online and we are reminded of John O’Donohue’s description of a soul friend, in his native Gaelic an anam cara. “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… With your anam cara you awaken the eternal. In this soul-space there is no distance.” (Anam Cara, p10)

We believe that soul friends can be made regardless of space and distance between them, and that having companions for the journey is a gift from God. May you find peace, companionship and glimpses of the Divine as you enter this spiritual space.