Text Lets consider that spiritual friendship is first friendship between simple regular people Not very wise not very enlightened just regular people who share a motivation of living life in a more authentic and profound way people who understand that the

Let’s consider that spiritual friendship is, first, friendship between simple, regular people. Not very wise, not very enlightened; just regular people who share a motivation of living life in a more authentic and profound way; people who understand that the "normality" of our world is only statistical, and that it does not provide a valid index of how we should live; people who realise that the sickness of the world is also their own sickness, and from that realisation have given primary importance to the purpose of healing themselves so that they can flourish in their unique singularity: "In his heart every human being knows quite well that, being unique, she will be in the world only once and that there will be no second chance for her oneness to coalesce from the strangely variegated assortment that she is: she knows it but hides it like a bad conscience—why? From fear of his neighbor, who demands conformity and cloaks himself with it. " F. Nietzsche